{"id":164769,"date":"2026-02-22T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:08:08","slug":"tpa-sees-nearly-60-flight-cancellations-dozens-of-delays-as-winter-weather-impacts-parts-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164769\/","title":{"rendered":"TPA sees nearly 60 flight cancellations, dozens of delays as winter weather impacts parts of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As heavy snow and strong winds impact parts of the East Coast of the U.S., TPA travelers are experiencing dozens of flight delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Dozens of flights have been canceled or delayed at Tampa International Airport (TPA) as parts of the East Coast are dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/blizzard-warnings-east-coast-prepare-heavy-snow-strong-winds\/507-5039f4b8-efc4-4da8-acc3-5850d64f8dac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">severe winter weather.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cities and towns along the East Coast scrambled to prepare for a bout with heavy snow and damaging winds after forecasters issued blizzard alerts for communities from Maryland to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service warned that once the storm intensifies Sunday it could prove significantly more severe than projections made just a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the affected flights are coming or going to TPA from cities such as New York, Boston and Baltimore, according to flight-tracking site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/today\/KTPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">FlightAware.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, travelers may see longer lines at the airport after the Department of Homeland Security announced it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/dhs-suspend-tsa-precheck-global-entry-partial-government-shutdown\/507-3f4d54f3-ff7c-4653-83a3-33e3f637c81e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">suspending TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs<\/a> due to the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how many flights to or from TPA have been canceled or delayed as of 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 22:<\/p>\n<p>46 delays59 cancellations566 total flights                    <\/p>\n<p>Travelers should check with their airlines for the latest flight information.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Flight tracker: Which airports are seeing delays?                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As heavy snow and strong winds impact parts of the East Coast of the U.S., TPA travelers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-164769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}