Air travel to the East Coast was expected to return to normal Monday after a snowstorm canceled and delayed dozens of flights. More than 8 inches of snow fell Sunday in New York, temporarily shutting down John F. Kennedy airport.
“Sunday is one of the busiest travel days for business folks,” said American Airlines spokesman John Hotard.
“Those on canceled flights, we got a lot of them accommodated on other flights today. Those that didn’t get out, we’ll move them early tomorrow.”
American, which handles 320 departures out of O’Hare International Airportevery day, canceled 50 flights to and from the Northeast Corridor. United canceled about 28 of its 800 O’Hare flights to and from New York, Boston and Hartford, Conn.
Delays ran up to 1 1/2 hours at O’Hare and more than two hours for an ATA flight at Midway Airport on Sunday morning, said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation.
