More Flight Cancelations, Delays from East Coast Blizzard

In the aftermath of the blizzard on the East Coast, six departing flights from Los Angeles International Airport were canceled Monday.

Seventeen departing flights were delayed, according to Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that operates LAX.

Fifteen arriving flights were canceled, and 26 were delayed, LAWA reported.

On Sunday, Vehicle traffic was light at Los Angeles area airports as travelers apparently shunned the terminals after getting advance word that more than 200 flights in or out of the Southland were cancelled.

An estimated 212 flights were cancelled and 220 delayed at the Los Angeles, Burbank, Orange County and Ontario airports, all due to the blizzard on the Eastern Seaboard, according to statistics from FlightAware.com.

Los Angeles-area airports ranked number five on the web site’s “misery index” at midafternoon, behind snowbound Newark, Dulles and Charlottesville, and the resulting snafu at Chicago, the web site reported.

But it wasn’t flights to the East Coast that were cancelled at LAX, Burbank and other Southland airports. Airplanes and crews were out of position nationwide, and flights to the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix and Atlanta suffered the most cancellation or delays Sunday, the web site indicated.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock