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Article: Flights cancelled due to storm on U.S. East Coast
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 16, 2007
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Flights cancelled due to storm on U.S. East Coast
NEW YORK, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of flights to and from the
U.S. East Coast were canceled on Thursday night and Friday because of
a harsh winter storm.
JetBlue, the discount airline already battered by a recent storm,
canceled 15 flights on Thursday evening and 215 more on Friday
morning, which accounted for about a third of all JetBlue flights,
company spokesman Sebastian White said.
Of the cancellations, more than 200 flights were in or out of New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
"We've strategically cancelled flights so we have pilots and crews
in place to restart operations when the storm passes," White said.
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