Winter Storm Fern: Over 10,000 Flights Cancelled and 700,000 Without Power

ByZachary Folk,

Forbes Staff.

Over 10,000 flights were cancelled into or out of the United States on Sunday—about 22% of flights on an average day—as a major winter storm brings snow, rain and freezing temperatures to a huge swathe of the country and disrupts power for hundreds of thousands of homes in the South.

Thousands of flights were cancelled at airports throughout the U.S., including 553 at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, 519 at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta and 435 at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, according to online tracker FlightAware.

About 45,000 flights travel in the U.S. on an average day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and at least 10,205 cancellations in the U.S. as of 10:30 a.m. EST.