Delta Air Lines brought in a deicing team from its Minneapolis, Minn., hub to help clear its aircrafts of snow and ice in the wake of a winter storm that resulted in 400 flight cancellations.
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — where Delta maintains its largest hub and where temperatures are expected to remain below freezing all day Wednesday — saw more than 1.5 inches of snow on the ground, prompting extensive aircraft deicing and the closure of some of the airport’s five runways early Wednesday morning.
Delta said doesn’t expect a significant number of cancellations for flights into or out of Atlanta or in other airports in the Southeast, as operations are slowly resuming.
Delta’s operational leaders are setting their sights on the Northeast and New England, where snow began to fall Wednesday morning. A limited number of flights at New York’s LaGuardia and Boston Logan International have been canceled as a result, though Delta does not expect a significant disruption at those or other Northeastern airports.
