Dallas Flight Cancellations and Delays Persist Monday Following Severe Sunday Storms

Passengers flying through Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) this morning are still feeling the heavy impact of Sunday’s storms.

A day after more than 270 departures were scrapped at Dallas because of severe thunderstorms that rolled through the area, another 30 or so have been cancelled on Monday as a significant number of aircraft and crew remain out of position for early morning flights.

Thunderstorms were severe enough on Sunday that the FAA issued a ground stop starting around 2:30 p.m. local time that lasted roughly nine hours, which forced at least a quarter of all flights from the airport to be grounded. A second ground stop was issued later in the night due to high traffic volume as the airport attempted to process the backlog of diverted flights.

The chaos led to extreme tarmac delays, most notably for passengers on American Airlines flight 1367 from Charlotte. Flight tracking data showed the aircraft sat on the tarmac and at “hard stands” for over seven hours after landing, as the gridlocked airport struggled to find available gates for the surge of diverted and delayed arrivals.

The airline most impacted was American Airlines, which uses Dallas-Fort Worth as its primary hub. According to FlightAware, American saw over 230 of its flights cancelled on Sunday and already has nearly 90 scrapped on Monday as of 6 a.m. local time.

American has issued a travel waiver for those flying through Dallas today, May 11, along with alerts for Dallas Love Field (DAL), Austin (AUS), and Houston (HOU). The waiver allows for new travel through May 13 without a change fee, provided the same cabin is booked.