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Eastern Storm Causes More Than 100 Chicago Flight Cancellations
More than 90 scheduled departures have been canceled at O'Hare and more than 20 at Midway.
CHICAGO, IL — Airlines have cancelled more than 3,500 flights across the country after another nor'easter threat. Over the past 24 hours, about 90 departures have been canceled at O'Hare. At Midway, there have been about 48 flight cancellations.
Carriers including Delta, United, American and JetBlue said people scheduled to fly on Tuesday or Wednesday from a dozen East Coast airports can change travel dates as late as Sunday without paying a date-change fee.
About 433 flights were cancelled at Newark Liberty International Airport, and 380 were called off at LaGuardia.
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Several nor'easters caused more than 10,000 flight cancellations this month, according to FlightAware. The data company said it's the worst March for cancellations in at least five years.
#Noreaster4 Update: 3,690 flights now cancelled to/from within US. @EWRairport and @LGAairport are most impacted as of now (over 800 cancellations each). Live cancellation/delay info available here: https://t.co/cdxPRg7G48 pic.twitter.com/NrxoYFVhUc
— FlightAware (@flightaware) March 21, 2018
Also, this has been the worst March for cancellations in at least 5 years - over 10K cancellations and we still have 10 days left in the month...
— FlightAware (@flightaware) March 21, 2018
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