{"id":39848,"date":"2025-12-01T05:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/hundreds-of-flights-were-canceled-after-a-snowstorm-struck-on-one-of-the-busiest-travel-weekends-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:02:04","slug":"hundreds-of-flights-were-canceled-after-a-snowstorm-struck-on-one-of-the-busiest-travel-weekends-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/hundreds-of-flights-were-canceled-after-a-snowstorm-struck-on-one-of-the-busiest-travel-weekends-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of flights were canceled after a snowstorm struck on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/692c572789026fbb4d0ea9d4?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Travelers wait in line at a security checkpoint in Terminal 3 at O&#039;Hare International airport on November 30, 2025 in Chicago,\"\/><figcaption>A big snowstorm stranded travelers in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Vondruska\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Hundreds of flights were canceled on Sunday after a snowstorm hit the Midwest.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago&#039;s O&#039;Hare airport has seen the most cancellations and delays.<\/li>\n<li>About 1,500 flights were canceled in Chicago on Saturday when the storm first hit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed across the United States on Sunday after a winter storm battered the Midwest over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>About 350 flights into or out of Chicago&#039;s O&#039;Hare International Airport were canceled as of 9 p.m. ET on Sunday. Another nine were canceled at Midway Airport, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Hundreds of others were delayed in the Chicago area, one of the country&#039;s busiest flight hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Another 1,500 flights were canceled on Saturday as heavy snow and strong winds swept across the Chicago region, according to FlightAware data.<\/p>\n<p>The winter storm \u2014 and the subsequent flight cancellations and delays \u2014 came as Americans traveled following the Thanksgiving holiday, typically some of the busiest travel days of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Security Administration had predicted that Sunday would be one of the busiest days in its history.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it would likely screen over 17.8 million people from November 25 to December 2, including more than 3 million on Sunday alone.<\/p>\n<p>In an update, the National Weather Service said a period of &quot;accumulating snow&quot; was expected from Monday afternoon into Monday night in the Chicago region.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said this &quot;may produce hazardous travel conditions for the Monday afternoon commute and potentially lingering impacts for the Tuesday morning commute.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Another winter storm could hit New England and the Mid-Atlantic in the coming days, the Weather Prediction Center added.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big snowstorm stranded travelers in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend. Jim Vondruska\/Getty Images Hundreds of flights were canceled on Sunday after a snowstorm hit the Midwest. Chicago&#039;s O&#039;Hare airport has seen the most cancellations and delays. About 1,500 flights were canceled in Chicago on Saturday when the storm first hit. Hundreds of flights were canceled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}