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  Ahead of Christmas holidays, more than 2,270 US flights were cancelled on Thursday (December 22) due to heavy snow and freezing temperatures, reported CNN. Snow, rain, ice, wind and frigid temperatures are disrupting air travel plans across the United States and bus and Amtrak passenger train service. Airlines cancelled just over 2,270 US flights by 6 ET pm Thursday and proactively cancelled almost 1,000 flights for Friday, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Eighty-five flights were already cancelled for Saturday. Delays were even more extensive on Thursday: More than 7,400 as of 6 pm, reported CNN. The impacts are being felt hardest in Chicago and Denver, where around a quarter of arrivals and departures- hundreds of flights at each airport- were cancelled on Thursday, FlightAware data show. At one point on Thursday, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, delays averaging 159 minutes- almost three hours- were being caused by snow and ice, according to a n...

Chicago:  A "once-in-a-generation" winter storm with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit (Celsus) caused Christmas travel chaos in the United States on Thursday, with thousands of flights cancelled and major highways closed. Heavy snow and howling winds upended holiday plans at one of the busiest times of the year, as a huge cold front swept down from the Arctic and took freezing hold of the middle of the country. Tens of millions of people were under winter storm advisories or warnings, with meteorologists saying it was so cold in places that anyone venturing outside risked frostbite within minutes. "This is not like a snow day when you were a kid," President Joe Biden told reporters. "This is serious stuff." Blinding whiteouts and hazardous road conditions were already spreading, even as 100 million people were expected to take to the roads, according to the American Automobile Association. 'NO TRAVEL' The I-90, a major highway running ...