"If there's bad weather in Chicago, don't go through Chicago" if you don't have to, Boyd said.
Southwest Airlines spokesman Chris Mainz cited delays and cancellations because of weather in Chicago and storms in other parts of the Midwest.
The storm brought around 10 inches of snow to weather-hardened Chicago on Tuesday, prompting the closing of schools and the cancellation of more than 1, 100 flights at the city's two major airports.
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Temperatures topped 100 degrees Saturday in a swath stretching from south-central Iowa to the Chicago area to Louisville, Kentucky, to Virginia, the weather service said.
"In particular it was because of the severe weather that affected not only their hubs in Dallas and Chicago but also operations on the northeast coast, " ING Barings analyst Ray Niedl said.
Although plans have been made to avoid this happening again, in extreme weather there are limits to what any city even Chicago is able to deal with.
The coldest weather so far this winter is creeping over the northern United States this week, the National Weather Service said , sending the temperature plunging below zero in Chicago for the first time in 711 days.
Ayers, now a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a co-founding member of the radical activist group the Weather Underground in 1969.
The weather is better in the San Francisco Bay Area than it is in Chicago.
The storm sweeps over Chicago Tuesday and is expected to leave 5 to 11 inches of snow, according to the CNN Weather Center.
Incidentally, Chicago ranked at No. 3 on Forbes' list of America's Most Miserable Cities, for its lousy weather, long commutes and rising unemployment.
Air-traffic controllers are warning that the furloughs could force them to reduce the rate of flights arriving at big airports like Chicago's O'Hare International and Miami International by a third to a half during peak periods or bad weather.
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