Effects of the February 2010 Snowstorms on Airline Performance

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Friday, August 6, 2010 - The Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released a special report, Effects of the February 2010 Snowstorms on Airline Performance, describing how several February snowstorms in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast disrupted air travel at airports across the United States. In February, more than 20,000 flights, or 4.2 percent of all flights scheduled during the month, were canceled due to weather, the highest weather cancellation rate for any month since BTS began collecting data on the extent and causes of cancellations in June 2003. The report can be found at http://www.bts.gov/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/.