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Instead of waiting to fly to New York, for example, reroute to Washington, D.C., Baltimore or even Philadelphia if you can, and then ride Amtrak to New York.</p> <p>There just aren’t many good options for holiday vacationers trying to get back to New York, Boston and Chicago because of the severe weather. Between Thursday and Monday morning, airlines have canceled more than 16,000 flights, or about 17% of flight schedules, according to flight-tracking service FlightStats, leaving hundreds of thousands of people stuck, some for multiple days. Chicago has been hardest hit on Monday, but airports in the Northeast saw cancellations by the dozens Monday morning as well.</p> <p>The airline industry, lean and now profitable, has very little excess capacity available when things go wrong–few extra planes or crews to add flights to evacuate stranded passengers, for example, and few empty seats on flights that do depart. This series of storms and bitter cold has been particularly bad for travelers because it crippled airline operations, came at a busy holiday period and landed on top of a new federal regulation requiring more rest for pilots.</p> <p>Some airlines were better prepared to deal with the new rules than others—the industry had a long time to prepare, but hiring more pilots or adjusting schedules is expensive. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905155038/http://www.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=JBLU">JetBlue Airways</a> <span data-widget="dj.ticker" data-ticker-name="JBLU"></span> appears to be hardest hit. Since Thursday, JetBlue has canceled more than 36% of its flights, according to FlightStats. That’s massive compared to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905155038/http://www.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=DAL">Delta Air Lines</a> <span data-widget="dj.ticker" data-ticker-name="DAL"></span> and US Airways, both of which have canceled fewer than 5% of their flights. Regional airlines have also canceled flights in droves, but they often get hit hardest because airlines wipe out their schedules to make room for bigger planes at airports when conditions force limited operations.</p> <p>In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905155038/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304617404579302922520089310?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird" target="_blank">this story on travel disruptions</a>, JetBlue says additional cancellations are likely. “We have few options available,” a spokeswoman said in the piece.</p> <p>Here are some tips if you are stuck. Remember, there’s no magic secret to getting you on your way. Travel is an outdoor sport, and it has been massively impacted by the weather.</p> <p>–Make sure your elite status, if you have it, is in your passenger record. Higher-level elites get priority on standby lists for rebooking.</p> <p>–Try to rebook online, but many people find that unsuccessful or unyielding on creative solutions. If online fails, you’ll have to stand in an airport line and at the same time stay on hold with an airline telephone center. It’s a snail’s race to see which gets you help faster.</p> <p>–Be creative. Try to find seats to an alternative city from where you can get home. Amtrak trains between Washington, D.C., and New York were running close to on-time Monday morning. See if your airline can fly you to a city where you have relatives and can bunk until service returns later in the week.</p> <p>–Make sure you have a hotel room, and don’t bother trying to fight your airline for payment for accommodations. Airlines aren’t responsible for storms, though many customers could argue the problem now is how airlines dealt with storms, not the storms themselves. Airlines can, however, offer vouchers toward discounted rates at airport hotels. 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Two days before the expected winter storm: American Airlines #997 Boeing 777-200ER Departs DFW 730pm Arrives EZE 850am (+1); 5,286 miles; 10hr 20min. Return flight is weather dependent.</p> </div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="commententry "> <a name="comment-225063"></a> <ul class="unitList unitType-thread"> <li class="unit first"> <ul class="cMetadata metadataType-postInfo"> <li class="postStamp">4:53 am January 7, 2014</li> <li class="posterName"> <cite>Matt</cite> wrote :</li> </ul> <div class="commentContent"><p>Even better....don't fly anywhere east of the Mississippi between November and February unless you absolutely have to....</p> </div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="commententry "> <a name="comment-224931"></a> <ul class="unitList unitType-thread"> <li class="unit first"> <ul class="cMetadata metadataType-postInfo"> <li class="postStamp">6:26 pm January 6, 2014</li> <li class="posterName"> <cite>adub</cite> wrote :</li> </ul> <div class="commentContent"><p>One travel tip for outsmarting storms - don't fly Jet Blue, particularly during the winter or during busy travel periods. On a lot of their routes, they have only one or two flights per day, and they don't have the capacity or willingness to send a new plane to make up for a cancellation - so if a flight is canceled, it takes them several days to work a plane's worth of passengers through their system. Plus, so many of their flights are to or from the Northeast that a big storm in that area paralyzes them. 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