Christmas Eve travelers experience delays, cancellations as frigid weather passes through Northeast Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As a battering winter storm travels throughout america, many Northeast Florida residents’ journey plans have been impacted.

Since Wednesday, FlightAware, a flight monitoring instrument stated greater than 10,000 flights from U.S.-based airways have been canceled.

As of Saturday, 20 flights had been canceled on the Jacksonville Worldwide Airport with 60 flights being delayed.

There have been lengthy strains on the airport and loads of vacationers with delayed or canceled flights.

“They moved us from gate to gate after which unexpectedly it bought canceled,” Melissa advised News4JAX.

Melissa stated she and her daughter all the time fly out on Christmas Eve, so it’s one thing they anticipated to come across.

“They’re making an attempt to reroute us, but it surely’ll in all probability put us into tomorrow and even Monday earlier than they will get us the soonest flights,” Melissa stated.

Muhammad Abdallah was in the identical boat as Melissa; nonetheless, he stated he didn’t get an e-mail that his flight was canceled till he was on his solution to the airport.

“I don’t know what’s happening or work out what’s going to occur to me. I’m simply unnoticed alone. That’s what it’s,” Abdallah stated.

Melissa and Abdallah are amongst 1000’s of Individuals impacted by flight cancellations forward of the Christmas vacation.

One household whose flight was initially canceled was in a position to e book with one other airline — saving a Christmas journey they’d been planning for seven years.

One other man stated he needed to spend two hours on the cellphone with one other airline to have the ability to make it to his Christmas vacation spot.