More Flights Cancelled, Delayed Due To Holiday Storm In US

Holiday travellers are desperately trying to get home after another terrible day of flight delays and cancellation.

Airlines in the United States continue to waive rebooking fees for the second day in a row as many travellers are forced to face flight delays and flight cancellations. The Christmas holiday storm had made most of the scheduled flights into chaos due to the rebooking and delaying. Flights were not permitted to take off for fear it would crash due to the major storm. The storm has not yet passed, making Monday the second day in a row of cancelled flights.

According to USA Today, approximately 3,135 flights were delayed and more than 1,870 flights have been cancelled nationwide according to the flight tracking service "Flight Aware" due to the holiday storm. The flight hiatus were affecting a lot of airports across the USA but Chicago and Dallas were hit the hardest on Monday.

Last Sunday, no less than 1,600 flights were called off and 6,300 flights were delayed due to the storm snaking its way out on the east side of Texas and the Great Plains. The major flight hiatus was caused by the huge winter storm that is making its way across the nation.

The storm was targeting some of the busiest airlines.

According to TV News Room, Airports in Chigaco cancelled 820 as of 3:35 pm, approximately above 33 percent of the airport's daily scheduled flights.

Midway, one of the top bases for Southwest Airlines, has cancelled about 25 percent of its daily scheduled flights.

In Texas, weather-related flight problems persisted for the second day in a row.

In Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) more than 300 flights were cancelled on Monday while nearly half of all flights at the airport last Sunday was delayed or cancelled too.

Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport grounded 85 departures and 20 arrivals due to the holiday storm effects.

Cancellation still remains as a big problem, making all the airports affected packed.

Almost all major airlines were waiving rebooking fees for certain customers ticketed to travel to airports in the storm's path. This becomes a huge problem in some airports because alot needs to be done. The policies differ by the carrier, but generally - they allow certain customers to make one change to an itinerary with no additional cost due to the weather.

Going back to Sunday's flash flood, the number of deaths continue to pile up. The flash floodwiped lots of areas like Missouri, Chicago and New Texas.