Sandy grounded 15 percent of U.S. flights from Saturday through late Monday, according to data compi

Sandy grounded 15 percent of U.S. flights from Saturday through late Monday, according to data compiled by industry researcher FlightStats. Among weather events since 2005, that ranked second only to the 16 percent cancellation rate for a December 2010 New York snowstorm, the data show.
Cancellations keep planes and people out of harm's way when winds, rain and snow threaten air traffic, and let airlines position jets to restart flights quickly once the danger passes. Carriers scrubbed about 16 percent of Tuesday's trips before Sandy's landfall, data tracker FlightAware said Monday.
"They say, 'We're going to stop where we are, wait for this thing to pass and see how it goes,' " said Michael Boyd, president of aviation consultant Boyd Group International. "Consumers have to realize that when you book an airline ticket, you're taking some responsibility for the fact that weather happens."
Wind-lashed airports from Washington to Boston remained idled as United Continental Holdings, Delta Air Lines and AMR's American Airlines swept East Coast flights off their timetables. Delta is using hubs at Atlanta, Detroit and Cincinnati to stage planes that had been bound for New York.
Floodwaters at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport forced it to close late Monday until further notice, bed breakfast accommodations in paris and the Port Authority of New York New Jersey also shut the region's two other major airports, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International and New York's LaGuardia.
Counting Monday's disruptions, airlines are flying about 12,500 fewer trips than they had planned in the 48 hours ending Tuesday, according to Houston-based FlightAware. US Airways Group's cancellations Monday were more than half its daily operations, and shutdowns Tuesday include Boston, New York, Washington and its Philadelphia hub.
Sandy's bed breakfast accommodations in paris toll is already greater than Hurricane Irene's in August 2011, when that storm took aim at New York and triggered flight cutbacks along the East Coast. Over six days, airlines cut 8.5 percent of their flights, based on the data from Portland, Ore.-based FlightStats.
The cancellation rate for Hurricane Sandy so far has topped the 13 percent for a January 2011 ice storm that hammered the Southeast, including Delta's Atlanta hub; the 10 percent for a February 2010 storm across much of the northern U.S.; and the 5.4 percent from the 2007 Valentine's Day ice storm that crippled JetBlue Airways's operations, the data showed.
"We were looking at Delta's website and it's saying the flight is ready to go and will be on time," Hagenbach said. "Then the Weather Channel shows this swirling bed breakfast accommodations in paris vortex of terror right over us and the governor is saying don't go outside."
Chicago's O'Hare airport, the nation's bed breakfast accommodations in paris second-busiest for passenger traffic behind Atlanta's Hartsfield, bed breakfast accommodations in paris had more than 450 flights scrapped Monday as Sandy cut off the East Coast from the rest of the travel grid. More than 100 were dropped at Midway airport, a base for Southwest Airlines Co.
"Airport infrastructure must be operational before we even think about starting operations up again," Mateo Lleras, a JetBlue spokesman, bed breakfast accommodations in paris said before Kennedy's shutdown. "Public transportation is a close second. We have to be able to get our crew members to the airport."
The New York-based carrier canceled 1,200 flights from Sunday through Wednesday morning and suspended operations at the New York airports and Boston, cities that are touched by 70 percent of its flights, Lleras said.
Those markets, along with Washington and Philadelphia, were a focus of cancellations by United, Delta, American, Southwest bed breakfast accommodations in paris and US Airways. Fort Worth, Texas-based American said it was possible that its pullback may extend beyond bed breakfast accommodations in paris Wednesday.
— With assistance from Mathieu Rosemain bed breakfast accommodations in paris in Paris, Alex Webb in Frankfurt, Christopher Jasper in London, Brian K. Sullivan in Boston, Alan Levin in Washington, Mike Millard in Seattle and James Langford in New York.
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