Snow fallout: Airlines canceled more than 4,800 flights since Friday

Last update: 2:15 p.m. ET. Next update: By 7 p.m. ET

Flight schedules appeared to be on the rebound Monday after a rough weekend for air travel.

Nationwide, about 500 flights had been canceled Monday and another 3,000 delayed as of 2:15 p.m. ET, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.com.

Monday’s count comes after a spike in cancellations that has snarled flights since Friday from the Great Plains and Midwest into the Northeast in Canada since Friday. The culprit has been a potent winter storm – dubbed “Harper” by The Weather Channel – that’s brought heavy snow, rain and strong winds to airports from the Great Plains and Midwest into the Northeast and New England.

In total, airlines canceled more than 4,800 flights in the U.S. since the storm first began affecting flights Friday. More than 1,600 flights were canceled Sunday and another 2,165 on Saturday.

On Monday, flight schedules were improving in the wake of the storm, though they were far from normal.

The worst cancellation count so far for Monday were in Boston, where a combined 200 flights (combined arrivals and departures) had been canceled. More than 60 flights had been canceled at Washington Reagan National, Newark Liberty and New York LaGuardia.

Travelers flying Monday should continue to keep an eye on the airports serving New York City, Philadelphia and Boston, where strong winds could lead to residual delays and cancellations.

Elsewhere, many smaller airports in interior New England and New York state were taking longer to get back to normal after up to 2 feet of snow fell in the region.

In Albany, New York, many early departures had been canceled, scrapping about 20 percent of Monday’s outbound schedule there, by FlightAware’s count. In Burlington, Vermont, about a quarter of all departures and about 10 percent of all arrivals had been canceled.

Some cancellations had even trickled into Tuesday. Most of those 17 flights were preemptively canceled by Sunday in anticipation of poor weather.

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This file photo from January 2018 shows cancellations
This file photo from January 2018 shows cancellations

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