{"id":400002,"date":"2026-04-05T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/easter-weekend-meltdown-us-flight-delays-storms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:38:43","slug":"easter-weekend-meltdown-over-5500-us-flights-delayed-as-storms-batter-major-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400002","title":{"rendered":"Easter Weekend Meltdown: Over 5,500 US Flights Delayed As Storms Batter Major Hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major airports across the United States have been under severe operational strain over the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15353\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/easter\/\"  >Easter<\/a><\/span> travel rush, with over 5,600 delays recorded nationwide on Saturday adding to more than 15,000 delays across Thursday and Friday. A volatile blend of storms and peak holiday capacity saw hubs like <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259641\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-international-airport\/\"  >Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ATL), <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263837\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-ohare-international-airport\/\"  >Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ORD), <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256446\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dallas-fort-worth-international-airport\/\"  >Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DFW) and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262166\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/houston-george-bush-intercontinental-airport\/\"  >Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport<\/a><\/span> (IAH) each experience hundreds of cancellations and delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airports have been buckling during the Easter travel season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,604,551,608,6943,1046,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport","category-delay","category-easter","category-houston-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400002\/revisions\/400005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}