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Northeast winter storm grinds post‑Christmas travel — JetBlue, Delta among carriers with 1,000+ cancellations

A powerful post‑Christmas winter storm over the U.S. Northeast — forecast to drop up to 8 inches in the New York area — forced airlines to cancel hundreds and, by Friday, more than 1,000 U.S. flights, with JetBlue and Delta reporting the largest disruptions as airports and highways ground to a halt.