More than 100 flights cancelled at Kelowna airport so far this week

Counting seven flights already cancelled for tomorrow, there have now been a total of 138 flights cancelled going in an out of Kelowna International Airport since Sunday.

The airport was expecting 7,000 passengers to travel in and out of it today, Dec. 23, but there have already been eight cancellations and 19 delays, according to a Kelowna airport media release.

A typical day at the airport would have 5,000 passengers travelling.

There were 44 cancelled flights on Sunday and 55 on Tuesday, by far the worst days of the week.

“There are currently incoming weather systems forecasted in the Okanagan and at our connecting airports which could impact flights in and out of YLW,” a City of Kelowna news release reads. “ Some airlines have already cancelled flights for tomorrow to and from Vancouver and Victoria. Passengers should expect continued delays and cancellations in the coming days.”

Check with the airlines or the Kelowna airport website, here, for delays and cancellations.

READ MORE: Heavy snow in Vancouver causing flight delays, cancellations in Kelowna, Kamloops


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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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