SINGAPORE: Singapore Airways (SIA) was amongst a number of Asian carriers that cancelled flights to and from New York because the US state braced for a snowstorm on Friday (Dec 26).
The US Nationwide Climate Service issued a winter storm warning for New York early on Friday, cautioning that heavy snow was anticipated between 4pm native time on Friday (5am Saturday, Singapore time) to 1pm on Saturday.
In keeping with an SIA journey advisory, these six flights have been cancelled. All instances are native:
- SQ23 departing New York (John F Kennedy) for Singapore on Friday at 10.05pm
- SQ24 departing Singapore for New York (John F Kennedy) on Friday at 12.10pm
- SQ25 departing New York (John F Kennedy) for Frankfurt on Friday at 8.15pm
- SQ26 departing Frankfurt for New York (John F Kennedy) on Friday at 8.35am
- SQ21 departing New York (Newark) for Singapore on Saturday at 5.45pm
- SQ22 departing Singapore for New York (Newark) on Saturday at 5.30am
SIA stated it is going to be contacting all affected clients to tell them in regards to the cancellations, including that different flights is perhaps affected because the state of affairs stays fluid.
“Clients affected by the flight cancellations might be reaccommodated on various flights or can search a full refund of the unused portion of their ticket,” it added.
SIA clients who booked immediately with the airline can search a refund online. Those that made bookings by means of journey brokers or associate airways had been suggested to contact them immediately for help.
New York Metropolis’s John F Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, in addition to the Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, had been among the many prime 4 airports with essentially the most cancellations on Friday, in keeping with flight monitoring platform FlightAware.
Hong Kong service Cathay Pacific introduced on Friday that it was waiving rebooking and rerouting costs for flights to and from New York in gentle of the snowstorm. This utilized to the journey interval between Thursday and Sunday.
Tickets should be modified earlier than Sunday and journey should be accomplished on or earlier than Jan 31, stated the airline, including that the brand new dates had been topic to seat availability.
The airline has additionally cancelled one flight – CX840 from Hong Kong to John F Kennedy Airport.
Taiwan airline EVA Air stated it cancelled two flights between Taipei and New York’s John F Kennedy Airport because of the climate.
South Korean service Korean Air has additionally cancelled its Friday night flight from Incheon Airport to John F Kennedy.
