By late Saturday, Miami, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale - home to the 12th, 13th, 21st largest airports in the U.S., respectively - will be largely dormant as the extreme weather rolls in. But the prospect of a direct hit from Irma represents another blow to U.S. air travel in one of the busiest air corridors on the planet for business and leisure travel. Among Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, the three airports handled more than 115 million passengers in 2016. And American Airlines (AAL) was briefly under an FAA ground stop in Miami due to ATC rerouting outbound aircraft. Delta Air Lines (DAL), too, has added 2,000 additional seats on Thursday flights out of Florida and Caribbean islands, including the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Jamaica, including 1,500 from Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

Source: CNN September 08, 2017 03:56 UTC