A light snow fell Christmas Eve, but Denver International Airport was steadily sending holiday travelers on their way in their last brush with Colorado’s holiday blizzard.
No more than a half inch was predicted for any area.
All six runways at Denver International Airport were back in operation and travelers who had been stranded by the blizzard were long gone.
“I’d call it back to reasonable,” said Joe Hodas, spokesman for Denver-based Frontier Airlines. “We’re almost back to normal.”
Waits in security lines that had lasted up to an hour Friday and Saturday had dwindled to 20 minutes Sunday, he said.
Return fliers Tuesday will face a busy airport – one of the busiest flying days of the year. But travelers should be able to make their flights by arriving two hours in advance, Hodas said.
The blizzard that rolled in Wednesday morning had closed the airport for 45 hours after dumping more than 2 feet on the area. The storm shut down Peña Boulevard and socked in flights. Nearly 5,000 travelers had slept in the airport waiting to fly out for the holidays.
The National Weather Service doesn’t expect more snow until Wednesday when there is a 20 percent chance in Denver.
Temperatures will remain in the 30s, however.
“It’s going to take awhile for all this stuff to get out of here,” said Carl Burroughs, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
Staff writer Joey Bunch can be reached at 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com.
