US storm causes fatal crash, 16K flights cancelled in 2 days

A monster storm barrelling across the US has killed at least ll people including 5 in NY. It has also led to massive power outages

- Agencies

Travellers are bracing for extended disruptions to start the working week in the US as airlines try to get their schedules back on track following an intense winter storm that saw the most flight cancellations since the Covid-19 pandemic and a fatal plane crash in Maine.

Nearly 4,700 flights were cancelled on Monday as of 10:20am New York time, according to FlightAware. That follows the roughly 11,600 cancellations on Sunday, which bore the brunt of disruptions as the worst storm in years coated vast stretches of the US South and Mid-Atlantic in ice, and effectively shut down some of the country’s busiest aviation hubs, Bloomberg reported. More than a dozen flights departing the UK for the US have been cancelled on Monday so far, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. Airlines have also scrapped 10 flights arriving into UK airports from the US, with the disruptions likely to rise as the day progresses.