Flights from Ohio airports to resume to East Coast

Flights on Monday to destinations on the East Coast that were slammed by blizzard conditions are expected to resume.

Airports in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore were resuming very limited service Sunday after a large storm dumped two feet or more of snow late last week.

Flights leaving Dayton International Airport Monday morning this morning traveling to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York were still scheduled as of Sunday. Similar flights were scheduled to depart from the Cincinnati and Columbus airports.

Nearly 12,000 flights were canceled from Friday through Sunday. About 3,458 flights scheduled for Sunday and 699 flights for Monday had been canceled, according to flight tracking service FlightAware. The total of flights grounded was 11,768 for the four-day period.

Delta expects to operate a full schedule throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with a few exceptions Monday, according to the Associated Press. It expects to fly its first inbound aircraft to Washington, D.C. around 9 a.m. Monday.

“We had a number of employees stay at nearby hotels so they could be on hand first thing in the morning to begin the painstaking task of digging out,” Dan O’Brien, duty director in Delta’s Operations and Customer Center, said.

American Airlines flights are expected to resume Monday at the three New York-area airports, as well as the three serving Washington, D.C. The airline’s operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a limit number of flights in and out of Philadelphia resumed Sunday afternoon.

Southwest Airlines said it tentatively planned to start up service there on Monday.

A United Airlines spokesman said it was starting “very limited operations” at its Newark, New Jersey, hub and other New York City metro airports Sunday afternoon. Operations were to resume gradually Monday afternoon at Dulles International Airport in Washington, as well as Baltimore and Philadelphia.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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