Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: Thousands more flights have been cancelled across the United States, with no end to days of travel misery as the country digs out from a deadly superstorm.
US Flights
According to tracking website FlightAware, Southwest Airlines had still days away from resolving its systemwide breakdown: the carrier cancelled more than 2,500 flights, accounting for nearly 90 % of all scrubbed US flights.
Authorities in Erie county in western New York, the place of the country hardest hit by the massive winter storm lifted their death toll to 34, taking the US total to at least 56.
Around the clock, the work to restore electricity continued in the county’s main city of Buffalo, with the number of outages down to 500 citizens, Mayor Byron Brown tweeted.
Another weather crisis had played out at US airports around the country, as Southwest Airlines had been forced to cancel thousands of flights to recover from the spiralling logistics breakdown.
The airline’s woes stranded thousands of customers and pilots and flight attendants.
The freezing storm, which descended on the US just before the busy Christmas holiday weekend, led to unusually freezing cold weather in the country, including southern states like Texas and Florida.
