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Thousands of stranded holiday travelers were no closer to home on Tuesday, as the aftermath of a deadly winter storm that grounded flights and throttled plans over the holiday weekend continued to play out at airline counters.
Disruptions were likely to continue throughout the week at airports, where canceled flights caused weary homebound travelers to sleep on floors and wait hours in line for customer service.
By 6 am Eastern time on Tuesday, more than 2,800 U.S. flights were canceled and more than 650 others delayed, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. Dallas-based Southwest canceled almost 3,000 flights on Monday and had hundreds of others run late, disrupting more than 80 per cent of its schedule as operational woes mushroomed in the wake of the storm. Tuesday’s unfolding chaos followed similar scenes on Monday, when more than 4,000 US flights were canceled and more than 8,500 others delayed, FlightAware reported.
