Thousands of flights delayed, hundreds canceled over past 2 days due to weather, mechanical issues

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Delay: the one phrase you don’t wish to see on the departures board on the airport.

However, there have been hundreds of flights delayed or canceled for the second day in a row, as individuals attempt to make their approach residence from the vacation weekend.

In keeping with the web site Flight Conscious, there have been greater than 5,500 flights delayed nationwide on Sunday, and 167 flights had been canceled.

At one level at Cleveland Hopkins Worldwide Airport our crews counted 10 delays out of 27 complete departures, and 5 delays out of 20 arrivals.

Storms within the south, winds within the Northeast and mechanical issues all performed a task in delaying some flights, clearly for security causes.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is among the busiest journey days of the 12 months, and AAA has predicted this to be the third busiest journey season since 2000.

Members of Oberlin’s lacrosse group who had been flying into Cleveland from Newark, New Jersey informed 19 Information dangerous climate made for a bumpy trip, “Some fairly loopy climate up there. Quite a lot of turbulence on the flight. Prefer it was dropping up and down. Fairly scary.”

However, passengers like Vincent Russo, a grad scholar in Cleveland, mentioned he’s simply glad to make it safely right here from New Jersey.

“Flying into right here like we couldn’t even stand up to the conventional altitude. We had been caught flying at 10,000 toes, as a substitute of the standard 30,000 toes.”

Fortunately, everybody remains to be flying excessive after a vacation with household, even when they’re an hour or so late.

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