Hurricane Sandy's grounding of more than 6,800 commercial flights, including all departures and arrivals at metropolitan
New York's three major airports, will disrupt air-travel networks throughout the
U.S. and beyond.
Scrubbed flights include about 1,200 today and more than 5,500 tomorrow, said
Daniel Baker, chief executive officer of
Houston-based
FlightAware, a flight-tracking company. Airlines will begin canceling flights for Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 as the weather forecast becomes clearer, he said.
While carriers are halting operations at
LaGuardia,
John F. Kennedy and
Newark Liberty airports, flights to and from other areas will also be affected. New York's airports together represent a linchpin in the U.S. network, serving more than 52 million departing passengers last year and outstripping the world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-
Jackson in
Atlanta.
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