Airlines Tally Bay Area Fog Delays

Poor visibility forced airlines to cancel or redirect hundreds of flights--in the middle of the busy holiday travel season--into and out of airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose on Sunday, Monday and early Tuesday. United Airlines alone canceled more than 200 flights serving San Francisco International Airport--about half its normal volume there--before the fog gave way to sunshine Tuesday, said Bill Roy, the airline’s station manager at the airport. Stranded travelers waited hours at the airports or scrambled to find alternative modes of transportation to their destinations. United also was processing about 4,000 pieces of unclaimed luggage that had stacked up in San Francisco because of the disruptions, Roy said. Southwest Airlines was also forced to cancel flights.