With Hurricane Irene poised to rake the East Coast, Frontier Airlines has added five flights on Saturday to get people out of the area and canceled 47q more that were scheduled on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Southwest Airlines will temporarily suspend service to and from Norfolk, Va., all day on Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT, it announced today. About two dozen flights will be impacted.
Norfolk service will resume based on “the airport and city infrastructure,” said a statement from Southwest, Denver’s second-largest carrier.
JetBlue Airways, which as three daily flights to Boston and New York from Denver, was the first airline to announce it would cancel a large portion of its flights in and out of 13 East Coast airports due to the hurricane.
Nearly 900 JetBlue flights from Saturday through Monday are on the cancellation list, with most arriving or departing from its two largest hubs: New York JFK and Boston’s Logan.
American Airlines, which has about two dozen daily flights from Denver, has canceled about 130 flights involving East Coast cities.
U.S. airlines are expected to cancel more flights as the storm churns north this weekend.
Denver-hubbed Frontier Airlines is offering travel waivers for flights from today through Monday with United Airlines, Denver’s largest carrier, extending the waivers for flights through Tuesday.
For information about a specific flight, check with the airline.
Ann Schrader: 303-954-1967 or aschrader@denverpost.com.
