SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of flights were canceled on Friday morning in major airports in the U.S. Pacific Northwest due to icing and snowstorms.
By 8 a.m. Friday local time, Seattle, the largest city in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, had canceled 449 flights with 39 percent of flights leaving the city and 40 percent of flights coming in.
Portland of Oregon had canceled 202, or 46 percent of flights leaving and 41 percent of flights coming in.
A total of 51 flights were canceled at San Francisco Airport, the largest airport in California's Bay Area. Another 79 flights had been delayed.
Thousands of flights across the United States have been canceled Friday, snarling holiday travel, as weather conditions worsen ahead of a combination of snowstorms and freezing temperatures set to sweep across two-thirds of the country this weekend. ■
