Thousands of U.S. flight delays, hundreds of cancellations, after Thanksgiving

Watch Video Parts of the U S get over a foot of snow as Thanksgiving travelers try to head home Travelers around the United States faced delays at major airports during the busy holiday weekend as winter weather disrupted airlines schedules and program issues temporarily grounded a popular plane model in the days after Thanksgiving There were inbound and outbound flight delays revealed across the U S on Sunday morning according to the tracking site FlightAware The tracker also evidenced flight cancellations Airports in Chicago New York City Boston Des Moines Minneapolis and Detroit were among those the majority affected There was also at least one rail disruption in Providence Rhode Island where a fire broke out beneath three Amtrak train cars with passengers inside The Providence Fire Department declared crews extinguished the fire and relocated the train cars and no one was injured CBS News reached out to Amtrak for information about wider delays but did not receive an immediate response A powerful snowstorm in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions initially interrupted air journey for several in the wake of last week s holiday National Weather arrangement offices issued a flurry of winter storm warnings and advisories from Montana to Ohio as a aftermath and forecasters cautioned that airport delays and slow-moving traffic would likely follow That was especially true for places where snowfall was expected to accumulate at rates of more than one inch per hour The storm at first dropped upwards of inches of snow on northern Iowa the National Weather Institution declared By Saturday night more than flights were canceled at airports in Chicago where the winter storm was expected to bring as much as inches of snow CBS Chicago disclosed Similar accumulation was forecast in other parts of Illinois as well as in Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin Airports in Detroit faced more than flight delays and dozens of cancellations as the storm moved over that area Saturday night CBS Detroit informed Airlines also stated disruptions over the weekend after the Federal Aviation Administration flagged thousands of Airbus A airliners around the world in need of system updates including the one that Pope Leo XIV was using to tour around the Middle East JetBlue canceled approximately flights on Sunday as the airline performed the updates on a portion of its Airbus A and A models which were mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration The airline stated in a comment that it expected tool installations to be completed for nearly aircraft by Sunday morning with another or so still remaining Additional cancellations are achievable as we continue working through the program updates the message disclosed We understand the impact this has on customers especially during a busy holiday advance period and we are doing everything we can to minimize disruptions FlightAware manifested JetBlue had canceled flights originally scheduled for Sunday which was about of its schedule Demanded whether the updates would be finished Sunday or continue into Monday a JetBlue source described CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave that the airline was working as expeditiously as viable Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines also validated that selected of their Airbus planes required updates under the FAA directive Frontier announced the airline had completed those updates as of Sunday morning with no impact to customers Spirit Airlines previously noted in a declaration that it expected to complete the update on its affected aircraft on Saturday while doing everything we can to minimize any impact to our operation and Guests expedition plans Source