More than 1,700 U.S. flights have been canceled on Wednesday as massive winter storms threaten to bring record snowfall across the country, with disruptions set to continue through Thursday.
A total of 1,772 flights in and out of the country had been canceled while 6,705 flights were delayed, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.
Skywest, Delta, and Southwest have the highest number of canceled flights among U.S. Airlines, impacting between 7 and 19 percent of their scheduled flights.
The airport that saw the highest number of cancelations was the Minneapolis−St. Paul International Airport, where 205 outgoing and 223 incoming flights were canceled, accounting for 45 percent and 50 percent of those scheduled, respectively. The Denver International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport each had more than 100 outgoing or incoming flights canceled on Wednesday….