{"id":381606,"date":"2026-07-21T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:31:09","slug":"american-southwest-cancel-400-flights-as-storms-hit-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381606\/","title":{"rendered":"American, Southwest cancel 400 flights as storms hit Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/southwest-airlines\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Southwest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/american-airlines\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">American Airlines<\/a> operations were upended on Tuesday, as the North Texas carriers combined to cancel more than 400 flights nationwide as sever weather was forecast for some parts of the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>American, which operates its central hub at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dfw-airport\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">DFW International Airport<\/a>, appeared to be affected at airports in the Northeast, including in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York and Boston. In Philadelphia, American Airlines and its wholly-owned regional carriers PSA and Piedmont combined to cancel more than 200 flights, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. FlightAware showed that Southwest, which is based at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/love-field\/?utm_source=paid_marketing&amp;utm_medium=google&amp;utm_campaign=content_acquisition&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23423742462&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADjVYgGR5WJEiJl5DvUize-Xrn9y-&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwsfzSBhB5EiwAOGyqSc1G1b806lj1FKwTlp9W8TAq7j4LusYw2ctCcPjoLBWlGr4KZz8ZxxoCgwEQAvD_BwE\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Love Field<\/a>, suffered more than 100 cancellations in Baltimore, where it holds a significant presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>American issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/i18n\/travel-info\/travel-alerts.jsp\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">travel alert<\/a> allowing customers to change their travel free of cost if they&#8217;re traveling through several airports in the Northeast. Southwest is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/travel-advisory\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">offering customers<\/a> traveling through multiple East Coast airports the opportunity to rebook their flight, and even receive a refund, if eligible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both American and Southwest&#8217;s operations at the two major North Texas airports seemed to be operating smoothly, with less than 60 cancellations combined at DFW and Love Field as of 4:20 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southwest and American Airlines operations were upended on Tuesday, as the North Texas carriers combined to cancel more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,102221,91379,105977,105976],"class_list":["post-381606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-american-airlines","tag-tp-dfw-airport","tag-tp-love-field","tag-tp-southwest-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}