Overview
- As of noon Sunday, FlightAware reported 6,211 U.S. flight delays and 1,006 cancellations on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
- Chicago O’Hare led disruptions driven by a Great Lakes snowstorm, with ripple effects at airports including New York, Boston, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Detroit.
- Regulators in the U.S. and Europe issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Airbus A320-family jets following an Oct. 30 JetBlue midair incident.
- JetBlue canceled roughly 70 to 74 flights while installing the mandated software on about 120 aircraft, with more work still in progress.
- Frontier said it completed the required updates without customer impact, and Spirit indicated it expected to finish its updates on Saturday.