Nearly 900 flights were delayed Sunday at Denver International Airport during a wave of severe weather across Colorado that ranged from thunderstorms and hail to tornadoes.
As of 6 p.m. Sunday, 874 flights had been delayed and 13 had been canceled at DIA, according to flight tracking software from .
Southwest delayed the most flights at 311 and another 267 United flights failed to leave the gate on time. Skywest canceled 12 flights and Southwest canceled one.
Other DIA flight delays included 142 from SkyWest, 60 from Frontier, 31 from Delta, 17 from American Airlines, 16 from Key Lime Air, seven from Alaska Airlines and six from JetBlue, according to Flight Aware.
Air Canada, Lufthansa, British Airways, Edelweiss Air AG, Envoy Air, Air France, Aer Lingus, Southern Airways Express, Sun County Airlines, Contour Airlines and WestJet all delayed between one and three flights Sunday.
Flights arriving at DIA on Sunday also experienced more than 2-hour delays due to the ongoing thunderstorms, according to the .
As of 6 p.m., FAA officials said the average delay for arriving flights was 2 hours and 18 minutes. An hour earlier, at 5 p.m., the delay was closer to 45 minutes.
