{"id":194761,"date":"2026-03-17T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:37:10","slug":"cancellations-and-delays-pile-up-at-southwest-florida-international-airport-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194761\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancellations and delays pile up at Southwest Florida International Airport Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cancellations and delays pile up at Southwest Florida International Airport Tuesday morning<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026450_591_gcnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"Gulf Coast News logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:12 AM EDT Mar 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc-7.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMany early-morning flights out of Southwest Florida International Airport have either been canceled or delayed Tuesday due to weather.According to the Lee County Port Authority website, a total of 16 flights have been canceled and 28 have been delayed to some extent for Tuesday.The cancellations span multiple airlines, including Southwest, Delta and United. To check the live status of flights, including any cancellations, click here. DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Many early-morning flights out of Southwest Florida International Airport have either been canceled or delayed Tuesday due to weather.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flylcpa.com\/departures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee County Port Authority website<\/a>, a total of 16 flights have been canceled and 28 have been delayed to some extent for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellations span multiple airlines, including Southwest, Delta and United. <\/p>\n<p>To check the live status of flights, including any cancellations, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flylcpa.com\/departures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancellations and delays pile up at Southwest Florida International Airport Tuesday morning Updated: 6:12 AM EDT Mar 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1185,20805,6737,13724,104,20334,28,30,29,1179,213,90467,90466,4428,197,5995,21555,221],"class_list":["post-194761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alert","tag-cancellation","tag-delay","tag-delta","tag-entertainment","tag-flight","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-late-news","tag-live-status","tag-multiple-airline","tag-phone","tag-sport","tag-total","tag-united","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194761","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=194761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}