Nearly 1,800 flights canceled, delayed at DIA amid weekend snow, freezing temperatures
Jan 05, 2025
Just under 600 flights were canceled or delayed at Denver International Airport on Sunday as light snow continued to fall across the mountains and Front Range and temperatures hovered below freezing across the state.
As of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, 496 flights at DIA had been delayed and another 96 were canceled entirely, according to data from flight tracking software FlightAware.
That’s fewer than Saturday at the Denver airport when at least 1,120 flights were delayed and another 70 were canceled. So far this weekend, that puts the total number of delayed and canceled flights at just under 1,800.
United took first for flight delays this weekend with 364 on Saturday and 139 on Sunday, according to FlightAware data. Southwest followed closely behind with 353 delays on Saturday and 148 on Sunday.
Frontier, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Delta, Key Lime Air, JetBlue, Southern Express Airways, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Allegiant Air, AeroMexico, Jazz, VivaAerobus, British Airways, Cayman Airways, Copa Airlines, Envoy Air, Icelandair, Volaris and Air France all delayed flights at DIA over the weekend.
SkyWest, the airline that operates United Express, canceled the most flights on both days — 41 on Saturday and 36 on Sunday, according to FlightAware.
United and Southwest both canceled 42 flights between Saturday and Sunday, overshadowing two canceled by Frontier.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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