By Marnie Hunter, CNN
Various Florida airports remained closed on Thursday with hundreds of flights canceled within the wake of Hurricane Ian.
Simply earlier than midnight on Wednesday, Jacksonville Worldwide Airport tweeted that its airport terminal had closed and all Thursday flights had been canceled. The airport didn’t say when it might reopen.
Key West Worldwide Airport reopened on Thursday at 7 a.m., the airport stated on its web site.
The airports under stay closed, in accordance with data from the Federal Aviation Administration’s airport standing map.
Whereas many of the airports haven’t introduced reopening plans, the FAA map gave the next estimated reopening instances, as of 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday:
• Sarasota-Bradenton Worldwide anticipated to reopen Thursday at 7:59 p.m. ET
• Tampa Worldwide anticipated to reopen on Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET
• Orlando Worldwide anticipated to reopen Friday at 10:30 a.m. ET
• St. Petersburg/Clearwater Worldwide anticipated to reopen Friday at 12 p.m. ET
• Southwest Florida Worldwide anticipated to reopen Friday at 12 p.m. ET
• Daytona Seashore Worldwide anticipated to reopen October 5 at 6 p.m. ET
Miami Worldwide Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport are open, however some flights have been delayed and canceled.
Practically 2,000 Thursday flights within the US had been canceled by 8:30 a.m. ET, in accordance with knowledge from flight monitoring website FlightAware. Greater than 2,100 US flights had been canceled on Wednesday.
The airports in Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville had been main with essentially the most cancellations Thursday morning.
Practically 900 Friday flights had additionally been canceled by Thursday morning.
Greater than 250 Thursday American Airways flights had been canceled by 8:30 a.m. ET, in accordance with FlightAware.
American prospects touring by airports in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas can rebook flights with out change charges.
Different US carriers, together with Delta, Southwest and United, have additionally launched versatile insurance policies for impacted passengers.
Because the storm approached, the FAA stated in a press release that it was “carefully monitoring Hurricane Ian and its path,” underscoring that it doesn’t cancel industrial flights.
“Earlier than any storm hits, we put together and defend air visitors management amenities and tools alongside the projected storm path so operations can shortly resume after the hurricane passes to assist catastrophe reduction efforts.”
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CNN’s Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report. High picture: The arrival and departures board lists quite a few flight cancellations at Tampa Worldwide Airport on September 27, 2022. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP through Getty Photos)
