SUPERSTORM Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the US northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.
More than 7000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday alone, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware,
Delays rippled across the US, affecting travellers in cities from San Francisco to Atlanta. Some passengers attempting to fly out of Europe and Asia also were stuck.
Authorities closed the three big New York airports because of the storm. New York has the nation's busiest airspace, so cancellations there can dramatically affect travel in other cities.
It was possible that John F. Kennedy airport would reopen for flights on Wednesday, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It wasn't known when the LaGuardia and Newark airports would reopen.
Flying began to resume at other airports. Delta restarted flying from Boston and Washington Dulles and Reagan on Tuesday. Airline spokesman Morgan Durrant said it would resume domestic flights from JFK on Wednesday.Service was slowly returning to Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
Traffic from Asia to the east coast was beginning to resume, with flights from Tokyo's Narita International Airport to New York and to Washington, DC resuming as of Wednesday morning.
From Tokyo's Haneda airport, the JAL/American Airlines flight to and from New York was cancelled.
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, which cancelled seven flights to Kennedy airport through Wednesday, said service would resume on Thursday.
South Korean airlines Korean Air and Asiana Airlines said they would resume normal service to east coast cities starting late Wednesday or Thursday.
The number of cancellations caused by Sandy was roughly on par with other major storms that airlines dealt with. A major winter storm in early 2011 caused 14,000 cancellations over four days.
The airlines are facing a large task in getting things back to normal.
Workers had to clear garbage and downed tree limbs from runways at JFK. Water was on the runway at LaGuardia. At one point, some airlines hoped to restart some New York flights by late Tuesday, but that idea was abandoned.
Flooded roads and closed subways kept some workers from the airport. Reservations workers at other airports and at call centres were busy dealing with stranded passengers.
Some travellers hunkered down and waited, while others looked for a new way home.
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