{"id":479085,"date":"2025-12-30T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:00:15","slug":"holiday-travel-weather-in-parts-of-the-u-s-affected-flights-at-phoenix-sky-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479085\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday travel: Weather in parts of the U.S. affected flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jusaqk2vpeb55p20.jpg\" alt=\"Winter weather elsewhere affecting Sky Harbor\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/video\/fmc-bpm4dk6itfpntlb2\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter weather elsewhere affecting Sky Harbor<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">The post-Christmas travel rush is still on at airports across the U.S., and FOX 10&#8217;s Nicole Krasean has more on how Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is faring on the Monday after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Nearly 3 million people passed through TSA on Dec. 28, 2025 across the country following Christmas, exceeding predictions for holiday travel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">In Phoenix, despite some severe weather in other parts of the country, there were only four cancellations on Dec. 29 at Sky Harbor.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Delays were another story, with nearly 150 reported, but the overall response today was that flights were smooth and people are happy to land somewhere with some nice sunshine.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;It was freezing, we got some snow, snowstorm last night into today,&#8221; said traveler Amari Myers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Myers says some serious winter weather in Iowa led to a bit of a long travel day.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Finally, after some flight delays, we finally got in the air and yeah, so much better to be here,&#8221; Myers said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Marques Brown was also happy to be here after leaving Seattle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;The weather there, it&#8217;s super cold now, it&#8217;s icing over but it&#8217;s not black ice yet,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;We just got through some heavy rain, I have four-wheel drive so it wasn&#8217;t fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Now the fun can begin\u2014well, once he&#8217;s lost some layers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to take this off, it&#8217;s that Seattle weather that I&#8217;m wearing,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Candice Burning moved from Phoenix this past year, and says her holiday visit included a trip up north to Flagstaff for some winter fun.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;We went sledding at Flagstaff Snow Park and we rented a little VRBO up there and drove ATVs around and we got a little bit of a storm which was nice,&#8221; Burning said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Now she&#8217;s heading home and managed to swing first-class upgrades with a travel hack she&#8217;s willing to share.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;So I book on American and I book really early and then I check in,&#8221; Burning said. &#8220;If you check in exactly 24 hours before, then you get the same-day first class option for really cheap\u2014so like $100. For each way for $100, I upgraded to first class!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered by FOX 10&#8217;s Nicole Krasean.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/travel-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/travel\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter weather elsewhere affecting Sky Harbor The post-Christmas travel rush is still on at airports across the U.S.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7709,1165,1588,50,1589,1164,18900,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-479085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-maricopa-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-travel","17":"tag-travel-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115806288223500598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}