{"id":142553,"date":"2026-02-23T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142553\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:27:07","slug":"lufthansa-scraps-flights-to-new-york-and-boston-amid-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142553\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa scraps flights to New York and Boston amid winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">German airline Lufthansa has cancelled all flights to New York and Boston scheduled to take off on Monday due to a blizzard on the US East Coast, a spokesman for the carrier said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flights from New York and Boston to Germany have also been scrapped, he said, adding that so far there have been no cancellations for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lufthansa Group also includes SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Italy&#8217;s ITA Airways and Brussels Airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other carriers including Condor, Singapore Airlines and United have also cancelled flights to and from Frankfurt, Germany&#8217;s biggest aviation hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A severe winter storm was heading towards the north-eastern United States on Sunday, with more than 50 centimetres of snow forecast for some areas amid freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Severe weather warnings are in place for millions of residents in several states. US media reported, citing meteorologists, that some 35 million residents could be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency, noting this is the first blizzard to hit the city since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German airline Lufthansa has cancelled all flights to New York and Boston scheduled to take off on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59878,7064,59879,59876,59875,59877,59874,9,11,10,40204],"class_list":["post-142553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austrian-airlines","tag-boston","tag-brussels-airlines","tag-cancelled-flights","tag-flights-to-new-york","tag-frankfurt-airport","tag-lufthansa","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-singapore-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}