Winter Storm Diego Slams Southeastern U.S., Cancels Flights
- 80 percent of Sunday traffic scrapped at Charlotte Airport
- Storms already dumped snow and ice on California and Texas
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Winter Storm Diego struck the Southeastern region of the U.S. Saturday night, ravaging travel plans and wiping power from hundreds of thousands of homes. The storm is expected to persist throughout Sunday, with flight cancellations extending into Monday.
More than 1,300 flights in and out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport have been canceled this weekend, according to Flight Aware, an airline tracking service. American Airlines Group Inc., which uses Charlotte as a hub, accounted for a third of that total and had called off 1,100 flights due to the storm as of Sunday morning. American said Sunday it has already canceled 320 flights for Monday.