Alaska Airlines has been forced to cancel a number of flights within Alaska due to poor visibility caused by an ash cloud from Russian volcanoes erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula. From USA Today, MORE
That’s added to the chaos caused by over 10000 winter-weather cancellations and many more delays last week. Sunday was the 7th time in 8 days the airlines cancelled over 1000 flights, and 560 are already cancelled as of 7:30 today, Monday Mar. 2. DETAILS