Powerful winter storm grounds nearly 3000 flights – JFK airport closes

A powerful winter storm carrying snow and heavy wind grounded more than 3,200 flights in the U.S. and shuttered one of the country’s busiest international airports on Thursday.  Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a United Airlines hub, was most affected with 881 canceled flights, about 70 percent of its schedule, according to FlightAware, a plane-tracking website. At Boston Logan International Airport, a hub of JetBlue and an important airport for business travel, 716 flights were canceled.  New York’s John F. Kennedy International was closed as of late morning and was expected to reopen at 3 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The airport was hit by “whiteout conditions” and high winds, the airport said.

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