4,000 Flights Canceled as ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Hits Northeast

A plane sits on the tarmac at Ronald Reagan Airport, near Washington, D.C., before departure Jan. 4, 2018. Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images

Closed schools, hazardous roads, and bummed airline customers are replete throughout the northeast as a winter storm pummels the region.

Some 4,000 flights in, out, or within the United States have been canceled on Thursday, Jan. 4, according to FlightRadar, mainly at major airports in the storm’s path like Newark Liberty, Boston Logan, John F. Kennedy, and LaGuardia. In addition more than 1,400 flights have been delayed.