Storm paralyzes travel, forcing more than 8,000 US flight disruptions

U.S. airlines were still digging out from a powerful Northeast winter storm that forced ​more than 8,000 flight cancellations and delays on Monday, with thousands more already scrubbed for Tuesday.



FlightAware, a flight tracking site, said 5,683 flights in the United States had been canceled and 2,703 delayed after ​more than 11,000 were delayed or canceled on Sunday. Another 2,000 U.S. flights have been canceled for Tuesday.



American Airlines said it had been able to resume operations at Washington Reagan National and Philadelphia.



Delta and American both said they expect to resume operations at New York's LaGuardia and JFK airports and Boston late on Tuesday morning. Delta also expects to resume Newark flights on Tuesday.