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Around 1,240 flights to and from United States were cancelled due to a blizzard across the Midwest, stranding many travellers at airports on the final day of the Thanksgiving weekend on Sunday, 25 November.
According to Reuters, warnings were issues across northeast Kansas to Chicago. Bob Oravec, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said that regions, including Kansas, central Missouri, southeast Nebraska had already witnessed snowfall.
Quoting FlightAware.com, the news agency confirmed that more than 1,240 flights were cancelled. Around 900 of the cancelled flights were those departing or arriving at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport and the Chicago Midway Airport.
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