Canada wildfire smoke again slows flights in the Eastern U.S.

Smoke from Canada wildfires could disrupt flights successful the Eastern U.S. again Thursday aft hundreds were delayed a time earlier owed to decreased visibility, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

"The FAA volition apt request to instrumentality steps to negociate the travel of postulation safely into New York City, [Washington] DC,  Philadelphia and Charlotte [North Carolina] owed to reduced visibility from wildfire smoke," the bureau said.

The FAA concisely halted inbound postulation to Philadelphia International Airport earlier Thursday.

Hundreds of flights to and from LaGuardia Airport successful New York and adjacent Newark Liberty International Airport were delayed Wednesday owed to the dense smoke. The FAA had concisely paused postulation altogether into LaGuardia during the day.

By precocious greeting Thursday, much than 1,300 flights to, from and wrong the the U.S. were delayed, according to flight tracker FlightAware.

Nearly 68 departures from LaGuardia, oregon 12% of the schedule, were delayed Thursday arsenic of 11:30 a.m., according to FlightAware. Fifty-six Newark departures, oregon 8% of the outbound schedule, and a akin fig of arrivals to the New Jersey airdrome were delayed.

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