PA's Largest Airports See Major Flight Cancellations Due To Storm

PENNSYLVANIA —Nearly 100 flights at the state's two busiest airports have been cancelled as of Thursday afternoon as a massive winter storm moves from the Midwest to Pennsylvania and other parts of the Northeast.

Philadelphia International Airport was reporting 59 cancelled flights and Pittsburgh International had 31 cancelled flights, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. That's 14 percent of all flights scheduled to fly out of Philadelphia and 17 percent of flights scheduled out of Pittsburgh.

Nationally, nearly 4,600 cancellations were reported within, into, or out of the country. Airports with the most cancellations were in Dallas, Chicago, Austin, St. Louis and Columbus.

The storm is expected to bring ice accumulations of as much of a quarter of an inch and three inches of snow in Pittsburgh. Philadelphia was experience dense fog Thursday morning and is expecting as much as two inches of rain on Friday.

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