More than 800 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport on Friday as a spring storm covered the Front Range with a much-needed blanket of snow.
Airlines reported 794 flight delays and 30 canceled flights as of 8 p.m., according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
Departing planes were sprayed with deicing fluid for most of the day, which wrapped up before 5 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Flight delays at DIA included 242 delays on Southwest Airlines, 225 delays on United Airlines and 189 delays on SkyWest, according to FlightAware. SkyWest canceled 16 flights, followed by Southwest with five cancellations, Lufthansa with four, American Airlines with three and United and Frontier with one canceled flight each.
Cold weather is expected to linger overnight, with thermometers expected to drop to 18 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
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