Wintry weather elsewhere continues to affect Las Vegas airport operations

Flight delays and cancellations are continuing at Harry Reid International Airport Monday despite Southern Nevada’s sunny skies and mild temperatures.

The reason: Delays and cancellations in other parts of the country are creating havoc for airline schedules as companies work to reposition flight crews to recover from weekend winter storms that closed some airports.

Flight-tracking website FlightAware reported 71 cancellations and 167 delays at Reid as of midafternoon.

Most of Monday’s delays and cancellations involved flights to and from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, one of three major airports serving New York City.

American Airlines had 31 Las Vegas flights – 45 percent of its local schedule – cancelled and 23 flights, 33 percent, delayed.

Reid’s busiest commercial air carrier, Southwest Airlines, had 12 flights (2 percent) cancelled and 66 (15 percent) delayed.

Nationwide, there have been 5,467 flight cancellations and 6,991 delays Monday. The biggest choke points have been Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Charlotte, North Carolina and the three New York City airports, Newark, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia.

FlightAware also is projecting 402 cancellations in the U.S. on Tuesday, one involving Reid, but three delays at the Las Vegas airport. Six cancellations are projected for Wednesday.

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