On Thursday, Hong Kong’s leader John Lee announced the city is giving away 500,000 flights in an effort to revive its economy after strict pandemic policies.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field shared the majority of Wednesday’s cancellations.
Around 10,000 flights were delayed because of the outage of a pilot-alerting system.
U.S. flights were delayed after the Federal Aviation Administration suffered an outage of the system that sends messages to pilots.
Bitter cold, high winds and snow sparked cascading flight cancellations and delays over the holiday weekend.
Spare seats were hard to find for many travelers because flights were so full and schedules limited.
High winds, snow and bitter cold are threatening holiday package deliveries before Christmas.
Airlines canceled more than 5,000 flights as extreme winter weather swept through the United States
The government has urged the public to rethink their travel plans if they are on an affected service.
The latest storm is headed toward Florida about a month and a half after Hurricane Ian caused severe damage on the state’s Gulf Coast.