Low visibility and poor weather caused ground delays of up to 4.5 hours at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday night, with significant delays at all New York City area airports.
Some flights arriving at JFK were delayed an average of 4.5 hours, the FAA said in a real-time status update. Newark International Airport saw delays averaging 1 hour and 24 minutes, the FAA said, while La Guardia Airport delays were slightly shorter at 47 minutes.
Thunderstorms delayed flights to Orlando for an hour and a half, while wind conditions held back flights to San Francisco an average of two hours and 16 minutes, the FAA said. A “company request” held back flights to Tampa until “at or after 8:30,” the FAA said.
Weather-related “low ceilings” were causing gate hold and taxi delays of 46 minutes to an hour “and increasing,” the FAA said.
In terms of numbers, that translated to 293 delayed flights, or 44%, at JFK, according to air traffic monitoring website Flight Aware, with LaGuardia not far behind at 43% of flights delayed, or 219. Newark airport saw 204 flights delayed, which was 35%.
As a result, NYC airports were fairly high on Flight Aware’s misery map, with Kennedy in fourth place at 93, Newark eighth on the list at 61, and LaGuardia at 68, in spot number 11.
Flights were still taking off, with just 1% canceled at both Newark and JFK, which saw eight and 12 cancelations respectively, while LaGuardia’s 12 canceled flights made up 2% of the day’s trips.
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