After nearly two feet of snow fell across New York City on Sunday and Monday, the tri-state area’s three airports began to resume flights but still led the nation in cancellations on Tuesday, with major disruptions for ground-based transit as well. More than 30% of flights into LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark airports were canceled on Tuesday, totaling more than 600 inbound cancellations, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. About 200 more flights into the city were delayed. But it was even harder to leave the city through the air, with nearly half of all outbound flights at the three airports canceled. More than 800 flights out of LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark had been canceled by mid-afternoon. However, that still represented a significant improvement from Monday, when more than 90% of flights into and out of the tri-state area were canceled. Up to 30 inches of snow was recorded in North Jersey, while 23 inches fell in parts of Queens. After suspending service on Monday, the major passenger rail options were running modified schedules on Tuesday. NJ Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains were running limited service, with many lines on holiday or weekend schedules. The Long Island Rail Road Rosedale train station in Queens during storm on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) Four Long Island Rail Road branches — Far Rockaway, Hempstead, Long Beach and West Hempstead — remained suspended Tuesday. The LIRR was running weekend service on the Ronkonkoma, Babylon, Montauk, Oyster Bay and Port Jefferson branches, with hourly service on the Port Washington line and weekend service to and from Brooklyn. Limited shuttles were available directly from Jamaica to Grand Central. On the other side of the city on NJ Transit, the North Jersey Coast, Northeast Corridor and Raritan Valley lines were running Presidents’ Day schedules but still making it into New York Penn Station. Regular light rail service also resumed throughout the system. However, the Morristown, Gladstone and Montclair-Boonton lines and all Midtown Direct trains were being diverted to Hoboken, with riders encouraged to take the PATH into the city. Shockingly, PATH reported zero delays and issued no alerts for its Tuesday service, implying trains were running as normal despite the massive snowfall. Numerous Amtrak trains into and out of the city, including 12 Acela trains, were canceled on Tuesday, but the rail operator refused to declare an outright suspension of service into Penn Station. The Staten Island Railway was partially suspended in certain areas as well, with the MTA recommending commuters taking express buses if necessary. The city subway system was also running with delays, including massive backups at multiple stations in Brooklyn after C trains were taken off the tracks, forcing all A trains to run local. ...read more read less