Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Snow Lessons Learned: JetBlue Cancels Flights, City Suspends Parking Rules

The city’s second snow storm of the season quickly turned to slush, but area airports and airlines, including Jet Blue, were left facing delays.

LaGuardia is still experiencing 90-minute delays on arriving flights.

JetBlue handed out $100 vouchers to about 100 passengers who were stuck on a runway at JFK last night.

The vouchers are part of the company's new customer "bill of rights" that was put in place after the Valentine's Day storm when hundreds of JetBlue passengers were stuck on planes for as long as ten hours.

Last night, JetBlue cancelled nearly 70 flights into and out of Kennedy Airport for today.

Passengers can rebook through Thursday or request refunds or credit for future travel.

Meanwhile, the city deployed 2,000 plows, 365 salt spreaders and thousands of employees to make sure this storm did not cripple the city.

Alternate side of the street parking rules were also suspended for the day.

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