More flight delays are expected at the Sangster International Airport in the western city of Montego Bay as a winter storm continues to blanket parts of the north-eastern US and Canada with up to two feet of snow.
Since Friday, scores of passengers have been experiencing delays as flight schedules were pushed back in some parts of North America. AS a result, approximately 18 flights were delayed.
Elizabeth Brown Scotton, Chief Commercial Officer at MBJ Airports, told RJR News that he situation is likely to remain the same on Saturday.
“That is our expectation, we are hearing that there will be more snowfall coming into the north east area. We really encourage passengers who are traveling or people who are meeting them , to check with the airlines on what the expected time of arrival will be”
Since Wednesday,the storm has forced the cancellation of more than 4,000 flights in the United States.
Meanwhile, Scotton says the delays will have a wide scale impact on the airline industry.
“We expect that not only will the delays happen due to the weather, but it will have a domino effect on the rest of the airline system with aircraft that are coming into New York and going onto to other destinations that will impact our other arrivals for instance out of Orlando and Atlanta and other places that are not under the snow watch under the winter storm watch but may have aircraft that are not arriving on time from those airports,” she said.
In the United States, Boston has been hard-hit by the major winter storm getting nearly 18 inches of snow, while some towns north of New England's largest city saw close to 2 feet of accumulation.
Major cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Maine, were slammed, with New York's Manhattan island getting 6 inches of snow and parts of the borough of Queens seeing more than 10 inches.
According to the National Weather Service, one town in Minnesota notched a reading of minus 38 degrees Celsius that stood as the lowest temperature recorded in the US outside Alaska yesterday.
New York City's Department of Homeless Services went to code blue, doubling the number of vans patrolling streets to seek people who needed shelter and streamlining the check-in process for homeless shelters.
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