Airlines canceled over 2,000 U.S. flights on Tuesday and Wednesday and some Florida airports halted operations as they braced for impact from Hurricane Ian, which was set to make landfall in the state.
As of 1:20 p.m. ET Wednesday, airlines had scrapped 403 flights on Tuesday and 2,100 on Wednesday across the United States, and 3,286 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed on Tuesday, and 1,491 on Wednesday, according to flight-tracking website Flightaware.com.
Hurricane Ian on Wednesday began lashing Florida’s Gulf Coast with powerful winds and drenching rain, prompting authorities to tell residents it was too late to evacuate as the eye of the storm inched toward shore with close to Category 5 power….