Busy travel day clashes with leftover weather delays at LAX, SoCal airports
Busy travel days clash with weather delays for the rest of the day after Christmas
As of Monday morning, 64 flights have been canceled from LAX.
Los Angeles – With millions of Americans returning home after Christmas, Monday is expected to be another busy travel day at airports across the country.
A busy day of travel combined with the remaining problems from a major winter storm could be a recipe for disaster. I was hoping to catch a new flight.
Below is a list of Southland Airport flight delays and cancellations as of 6am Monday morning.
Los Angeles International Airport
- 64 delay
- 60 cancellations
long beach airport
Hollywood Burbank airport
Ontario International Airport
John Wayne Airport
- 11 delays
- 20 cancellations
These numbers can change throughout the day, so travelers are advised to keep their itineraries up to date.
The FAA reported that New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Minneapolis were expected to experience the worst delays, with Southwest being the hardest hit of all airlines.
Those unable to return home for Christmas have been forced to cancel or rethink their vacation plans, and thousands are now struggling to find an easy route home.
Laura Alvarez told FOX 11 that her flight back to Michigan was canceled and she’s been on the phone with a customer support agent for nearly two hours.
“They finally gave us another option, which was Chicago. So the plan was to go back to Chicago and then drive five hours home,” she explained. , whose second flight was canceled and eventually returned home on another flight.
US airlines have canceled more than 12,000 flights since Wednesday, according to tracking website Flight Aware.