Hurricane Milton triggers flight cancellations at JFK, LaGuardia, Newark

Flight cancellations successful and retired of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports to Florida piled up Wednesday arsenic Hurricane Milton made landfall connected the storm-beleaguered Gulf Coast.

Popular destinations similar West Palm Beach, Tampa and Orlando either had nary reported flights, oregon had cancelled flights altogether arsenic of Wednesday night. Airlines specified arsenic United Airlines, Air Canada, Delta, JetBlue, and Spirit were each grounded, formation trackers showed.

Flights retired of JFK to Fort Lauderdale and Miami faced immoderate delays, though they were operational. Flights retired of LaGuardia to Jacksonville were afloat operational,  portion those retired of Miami faced cancellations.

It was a mixed container for flights retired of Fort Lauderdale, which were operational but with immoderate cancellations, trackers showed.

Newark Liberty International Airport flights to Miami, however, were afloat operational, portion flights retired of Fort Lauderdale to Newark, though facing immoderate delays, were inactive getting disconnected the ground. There were nary reported flights retired of Jacksonville, trackers showed.

A whopping 2,681 cancellations were reported Wednesday — with the bulk coming from Florida airports, according to.flightaware; 407 flights were cancelled retired of Orlando International, 192 flights were cancelled retired of Tampa International and 115 flights were cancelled retired of Miami International, the outlet reported.