DALLAS, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Airlines slowly resumed operations Friday at airports hammered by Hurricane Isabel from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said air travel in the storm-battered region would probably be back to normal by Saturday. The airlines were repositioning scores of aircraft to resume regular schedules.
Cancellations on Friday were down from the 1,500 reported Thursday as Isabel pushed ashore. U.S. Airways, the major air carrier on the East Coast, announced 200 cancellations and American Airlines said it would cancel about 75 flights.
Most airports were operating Friday although there were problems at Washington's Reagan National Airport early in the day. A few airports closed temporarily in North Carolina and Virginia on Thursday after fights had been canceled by the airlines.
