The snowstorm battering much of the United States and Canada continued to impact Cayman flights on Tuesday.
Two incoming flights, both on American Airlines from Miami, were cancelled, with the return legs of both also cancelled. Three departing flights were delayed, including another American Airlines flight to Miami, an Air Canada flight to Toronto, and a Southwest Airlines fight to Orlando.
According to flight tracker website flightaware.com, 1,584 flights within, into or out of the US were cancelled Tuesday, and another 1,612 were delayed.
The massive snowstorm, which struck a huge area of North America, has claimed at least 35 lives, according to the Associated Press.
American Airlines said this was the most disruptive storm in the airline’s 100-year history, leading to more than 9,000 flight cancellations to date, the carrier said in a statement Tuesday.
The airline’s chief customer officer, Heather Gordon, in an earlier statement on Monday, described the previous 48 hours as being “incredibly challenging” and apologised to passengers.
“On behalf of everyone at American, I want to assure you it’s been all hands on deck to keep our operation moving,” Gordon said. “Our largest hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), which touches a significant number of the flights we operate each day, was hit particularly hard with record-setting conditions.”
The US National Weather Service had warnings for extreme, dangerous cold in effect Tuesday morning from Texas to Pennsylvania, where some areas were forecast to see wind chills as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 29 degrees Celsius), the Associated Press reported.
The news agency noted that much of the US wasn’t forecast to get above freezing all day Tuesday, with temperatures plunging again overnight. Thermometers in northern Florida were forecast to sink to 25°F (-3.9°C) late Tuesday into early Wednesday.
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