AIRLINES/AIRPORTS
Major airlines -- including US Airways, American, United, Continental, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and AirTran -- dropped ticket-change fees for passengers scheduled to fly to or from many cities along the East Coast this weekend.
AirTran put aiports in 11 East Coast cities on a watch list for possible affects by Hurricane Irene, according to spokeswoman Judy Graham-Weaver. The airports range from Newport News/Williamsburg in Virginia north to Portland, Maine.
American Airlines canceled 126 flights due to Hurricane Irene as of 7:30 p.m. Thursday, spokeswoman Rhonda Rathje said. Most of those cancellations are out of Miami and the Bahamas. As of 5:30 p.m. ET Thursday, the airline had canceled three American Eagle flights Friday.
JetBlue cancelled 141 flights between August 21 and August 25, said spokeswoman Allison Steinberger. That includes a dozen flights canceled on Thursday, all of which were into and out of the Bahamas.
U.S. Airways canceled five flights to the Bahamian locales of Nassau and Freeport, spokeswoman Valerie Wunder said.
