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Airlines brace themselves for another wave of flight disruptions today

Samantha Bomkamp
Trucks remove snow from Newark Airport after a storm in 2010.

Photo Credit: Trucks remove snow from Newark Liberty International Airport after a storm in 2010. Flickr.com / Nfrastructure

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Airlines hardly had a chance to get back on their feet from Hurricane Sandy before they started cancelling and rescheduling flights in the northeast in anticipation for another storm tonight.

Major airlines are scrapping flights in and out of the New York area ahead of the second significant storm in little more than a week. United and American plan to suspend operations in the region this afternoon. Other airlines are encouraging passengers to reschedule — without a fee. Airlines are quick to cancel flights ahead of major storms to avoid stranding aircraft and crews. Doing so also lessens storm-related financial losses. As of 8:45 a.m. EST, about 360 flights had been canceled at the three New York airports, according to flight tracker FlightAw

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