JetBlue Airways Corp. canceled 1,200 flights for Sunday through Tuesday. The airline is hoping to re

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According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights were canceled on Tuesday. That brings the tally of flights cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy canceled because of the storm to more than 15,000. By Tuesday morning, more than 500 flights scheduled for Wednesday cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy also were canceled.
Narita, the international airport near Tokyo, canceled 11 flights Tuesday cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy — nine to the New York area and two to Washington, D.C. All Nippon Airways set up a special counter at Narita to deal with passengers whose flights had been canceled.
Hurricane Sandy converged with a cold-weather system and made landfall over New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph winds. The monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in some mountainous inland areas — killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
Even if storm damage is minor it could be a week before operations are normal at major East Coast airports, said Angela Gittens, director general of the Airports Council International, a trade group for airports worldwide.
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JetBlue Airways Corp. canceled 1,200 flights for Sunday through Tuesday. The airline is hoping to resume flights at its Kennedy airport hub Wednesday, but is worried cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy about flooding of the airport s runways since they are all basically at sea level and near bodies of water, according to Rob Maruster, the company s chief operating officer.
Frankfurt airport canceled 12 incoming and nine outgoing flights because of the storm, adding to 12 it scrapped on Monday. Spain s biggest airports in Madrid and Barcelona axed 19 flights, on top of 13 canceled the day before.
South Korea s Korean Air said it canceled three flights to New York and one flight to Washington on Monday and Tuesday. Asiana Airlines canceled its Tuesday flight to New York. Its Monday flight to JFK was delayed by 26 hours, then was postponed again by another 26 hours.
Samantha Bomkamp in New York, Kate Brumback in Atlanta, Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong, Youkyung Lee in Seoul, Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo, David McHugh in Frankfurt cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy and Ciaran cheap hotels near the coliseum in rome italy Giles in Madrid contributed to this report.
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