US airlines have canceled thousands of flights on Wednesday and Thursday as a powerful winter storm packing ice, rain, sleet and snow is stretching from the Midwest to the South.
For Wednesday, Chicago O'Hare, a United and American Airlines hub, is the most affected airport with 164 cancellations, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. St. Louis and Detroit airports are also accumulating cancellations with more than 200 as of Wednesday morning. In total, airlines have canceled 1,300 US flights Wednesday.Thursday appears to be even worse, with 1,600 flights already canceled.
Ice accumulation is expected across the South, including in the Dallas-Fort Worth region and Memphis, with effects that could linger into the weekend. Overall, more than 90 million people are under winter weather alerts that stretch from the Rockies to New England.Read More"A corridor of heavy ice accumulation is likely from Texas through the Ohio Valley," the Weather Prediction Center said early Wednesday.
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