{"id":12987,"date":"2014-02-14T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12987"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:02:43","slug":"icy-weather-leads-to-record-of-flight-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12987","title":{"rendered":"Icy weather leads to record of flight cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/icycold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12988\" alt=\"icycold\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/icycold.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Icy weather in the US has led to the highest number of flight cancellations in more than 25 years, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S. airlines have canceled more than 75,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, including roughly 14,000 this week. That&#8217;s 5.5 percent of the 1.35 million flights scheduled during that period, according to AP calculations based on information provided by flight tracking site FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s the highest total number and highest percent of cancellations since at least the winter of 1987-1988, when the Department of Transportation first started collecting cancellation data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, more than 70 percent of flights were canceled in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Charlotte, N.C. thanks to a winter storm that paralyzed most air traffic along the East Coast. Ice storms this winter have caused major headaches in typically warm cities like Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This year is off to a brutal start for airlines and travelers,&#8221; says FlightAware CEO Daniel Baker. &#8220;Not only is each storm causing tens of thousands of cancellations, but there&#8217;s been a lot of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And February still has two weeks left.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icy weather in the US has led to the highest number of flight cancellations in more than 25 years, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. U.S. airlines have canceled more than 75,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, including roughly 14,000 this week. That&#8217;s 5.5 percent of the 1.35 million flights scheduled during that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Icy weather leads to record of flight cancellations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[8335,8333,8334],"class_list":["post-12987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-2014-winter","tag-cold-weather","tag-record-number-of-flights-cancelled"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/icycold.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12989,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions\/12989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}