Christmas Storms Ruin Holiday Travel, Because Santa Isn’t Hiring Snowplow Drivers
KEY POINTS
- •On December 26, 2025, major US airports reported over 1,000 flight delays and 351 cancellations due to snow and rainstorms.
- •JFK and Newark airports, primarily serving the East Coast, experienced hundreds of cancellations amid 3-7 inches of snow heading into New York State and New Jersey.
- •Simultaneously, California faced severe flooding from an atmospheric river, causing San Francisco and Los Angeles airports to delay and cancel flights, further disrupting travel.
In a festive plot twist nobody asked for, over 1,029 flights faced delays and 351 were canceled at major US airports on December 26, 2025, dumping misery like overdue rent notices. The Midwest kicked off this chaos with seven inches of snow at Chicago’s O'Hare, soon passing the baton to NYC’s JFK (369 cancellations, 210 on Friday alone) and Newark (244 cancellations) as Mother Nature insisted on a Christmas sequel hitting New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania with 3-7 inches of snow. Meanwhile, California endured its wettest Christmas in 54 years, courtesy of an atmospheric river flooding & mudsliding LA, compounded by San Francisco’s Terminal 1 mini lockdown over a 'suspicious package' that vanished faster than holiday leftovers. The timing couldn’t be better — after a brutal 2025 that included an American Airlines plane crash into a Black Hawk helicopter, hundreds of FAA firings by the White House's DOGE office, and sick air traffic controllers ghosting jobs during a government shutdown. Basically, if you weren’t delayed, canceled, or grounded, were you even celebrating?
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When your Christmas plans get postponed by 1,000+ delays, 350 cancellations, angry snow, suspicious packages, and government chaos, you realize flying is just an elaborate social experiment in frustration.
Flight cancellations on Christmas Eve proved that even Mother Nature has a twisted sense of humor tougher than TSA's security lines.
Only in 2025 does a Christmas storm, FAA chaos, and a suspicious package combine to make flying more unpredictable than Bitcoin prices.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/26/2025 | Author: Katherine Li
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