Severe weather causing hundreds of flight delays, cancellations across Northeast

NEWARK, N.J. — Severe weather on Sunday caused headaches for flyers across the Northeast.

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According to FlightAware, a website that monitors flight statuses, Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports all reported hundreds of flight delays and cancellations. Newark experienced the worst of it.

Passengers are usually encouraged to arrive two to three hours before their flights, so that meant hundreds of people were waiting in the terminals for their delayed flights.

“My flight was canceled in Dallas ... It was disaster today,” one person told CBS News.

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At JFK, some frustrated travelers were grounded for hours, and even overnight.

“We were delayed, and then we were delayed more, and then we were canceled,” Mike Weber said.

According to CBS News New York, Weber was heading home to West Palm Beach after celebrating his daughter’s 40th birthday in New York.

“The whole weekend was great right up until it was time to go home,” he said.

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Since he was stuck in the city one more night, Weber was trying to make plans.

“Every hotel around here, and we’re rebooked out of LaGuardia, every hotel around there, they’re all full of people just like us,” he told CBS News.

Flyers were having the same problems at Newark.

“It got canceled. We don’t know why and they’re not gonna fly us out until two days from now, from what we’ve been told,” one traveler told CBS News.

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Another traveler, Elizabeth Miller, was among hundreds trying to get to Los Angeles.

“They said the next flight is on Tuesday ... I have an interview on Tuesday, so I don’t know how I’m gonna make that,” she told CBS News.

Travelers flying out Monday are advised to check in with their airline before heading to the airport and to expect delays.

“That’s traveling on airplanes. You have some bad experiences every once in a while, and weather, nothing you can do about it. So yeah, we’re okay,” a final man told CBS News.

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For more information, check out the CBS New York website.

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