Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Narita, the international airport near Tokyo, canceled 11 flights Tuesday - nine to the New York are




According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights were canceled on Tuesday. That brings the tally of flights canceled because of the storm to more than 15,000. By Tuesday morning, more than 500 flights scheduled qantas around the world tickets for Wednesday also were canceled.
Hurricane qantas around the world tickets Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast Monday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
Narita, the international qantas around the world tickets airport near Tokyo, canceled 11 flights Tuesday - nine to the New York area and two to Washington, qantas around the world tickets 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 qantas around the world tickets are normal at major East Coast airports, said Angela Gittens, director general of the Airports Council International, a trade group for airports worldwide.
"The storm has such a wide swath and so many major airports are involved that it's going to take some time (to recover) because those airplanes are so far away," said Gittens, who served as aviation director at Miami International Airport Dade during several hurricanes qantas around the world tickets from 2001 to 2004.
JetBlue Airways Corp. canceled 1,200 flights for Sunday qantas around the world tickets through Tuesday. The airline is hoping to resume flights at its Kennedy airport hub Wednesday, but is worried about flooding of the airport's runways since they are all basically at sea level and near bodies qantas around the world tickets 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 qantas around the world tickets on Monday. Spain's biggest airports qantas around the world tickets 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 qantas around the world tickets 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 qantas around the world tickets in Frankfurt and Ciaran Giles in Madrid contributed to this report.
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