Following weather advice received from JFK International Airport New York, Arik Air said yesterday it is rescheduling its Lagos – New York flight tentatively for today.
The flight was earlier scheduled for Friday January , 22, 2016.
The 48-hour postponement, according to Ola Banji, the airline’s spokesman, is intended to allow the dangerous winter storm (Jonas) and snow condition to clear before the flight’s entry into the United States airspace.
Arik Air, he said, regrets any inconvenience caused by the postponement affirming that the safety of passengers is of upper-most to the airline.
Meanwhile, major airlines anticipating a major snowstorm have canceled at least 3,014 flights .
According to flight tracking site FlightAware many airlines have reported cancellations .
They include: American Airlines (789 flights canceled); Southwest (492); ExpressJet (194); Republic (171); United (166); Delta (147); Mesa (111) and JetBlue (88) among others.
Airports reporting cancellations include Charlotte-Douglas International (396 canceled flights); Washington Reagan National (181); Baltimore-Washington International (167); Washington Dulles International (158); Raleigh-Durham International (123); New York LaGuardia (118); Hartsfield-Jackson International-Atlanta (112) and Chicago O’Hare International (107) among others.
The US National Weather Service is forecasting the storm “will impact a large portion of the East Coast from the southern Appalachians through the Mid-Atlantic states from Friday into the weekend.
“Snowfall totals may exceed two feet in portions of these areas, including the Baltimore and Washington DC metropolitan areas.”
In advance of the storm, several airlines offered ticket-holders for flights the opportunity to change flights without penalty.
In American Airlines’ case, passengers making flight changes will have the ticket-reissue charge waived for one ticket change.
Southwest Airlines had previously announced it will cancel almost 400 flights systemwide .
Delta Air Lines preemptively canceled 120 flights in the Southeast region and is expected to cancel more for the Washington DC and New York region as the storm progresses.
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