Over 8,000 flights canceled as storm freezes much of US; Las Vegas affected

It’s going to be a miserable travel weekend for airline passengers with thousands of flights already canceled Saturday and Sunday.

A massive winter storm is affecting flight schedules from New Mexico to New England as snow, freezing rain and ice are expected to hammer cities and their airports across the country.

As of late Friday, more than 8,000 flights have been canceled, the Associated Press reported.

FlightAware, a company that tracks flights worldwide, is providing flight cancellation updates on its website.

Even though the weather in Las Vegas will be relatively mild over the weekend, Harry Reid International Airport is anticipating 24 flights, or 5 percent of the total scheduled to arrive, to be canceled Saturday and 20 flights, or 3 percent of the total scheduled to arrive, to be canceled Sunday.

On Friday, there were six incoming flights canceled, but 74, or 9 percent, delayed by more than 15 minutes. Because those arrivals also affect departing flights, Reid International posted 11 cancellations (1 percent) and 53 (6 percent) departure delays.

Airports being affected the most on Saturday are Dallas-Fort Worth International, which anticipates 639 cancellations (73 percent of the airport’s flights) and Charlotte-Douglas International in North Carolina, with 147 (23 percent) canceled.

On Sunday, Charlotte-Douglas anticipates 287 cancellations (42 percent).

Other large airports expected to be affected by the storm on Saturday are Nashville International Airport (136 flights, 57 percent) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (94 flights, 9 percent).

As the storm moves east on Sunday, 223 flights (41 percent) are expected to be canceled at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, and 179 (41 percent) at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C.

Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta on X.