With the Thanksgiving storm getting ready to pummel the east coast and disrupt holiday travel, major airlines are already waiving fees for travelers to change their tickets.
The storm is expected to hit the mid-Atlantic by Tuesday morning and the rest of the Northeast on Wednesday, disrupting thousands of flights during the holiday travel period. The storm already cancelled around 1,000 flight at Dallas/Fort Worth over the weekend.
The prepare for the impending storm, Delta and US Airways are among the first airlines to wive change fees for flyers with tickets to and from the northeast. Delta announced the waived fees on Monday night. It covers customers heading to 12 of Delta's Atlantic coast destinations on Wednesday at airports from Boston to Washington Dulles.
Customers who want to change their tickets can move their flights up or back to avoid traveling on Wednesday. This will allow Delta to deal with problems that may travelers who may continue to try to fly on Wednesday. For more specific details, click here.
US Airways shortly followed suit by issuing a fee waiver for the Northeast. US Airways' policy covers passengers with tickets to fly Tuesday or Wednesday to more than three dozen destinations around the Northeast and Canada. The busiest hub to the impacted is Philadelphia. For more specific details, click here.
It is highly likely that other airlines will continue to make announcements of fee waivers.
The Thanksgiving storm is expected to bring snow to the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast but wind and rain are expected to affect most flights. Thousands of flights are expected to be impacted as nearly every large carrier has at least one hub at one of the Northeast airports which are expected to get poor weather. The weather is expected to clear out before the actual Thanksgiving holiday.
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