Hurricane Milton snarls travel by air, land and sea. Here's what to know.
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Hurricane Milton is disrupting air, passenger ship and other forms of travel in Florida and beyond as the giant storm barrels toward the state's western coast.
As of Tuesday afternoon, airlines had canceled a total of 702 flights within, into or out of the U.S., according to tracking service FlightAware. Most of cancellations were for flights to or from Florida, where airports closed ahead of the hurricane making landfall as early as Wednesday night.
Nearly 160 flights were canceled out of Tampa International Airport, while another 188 inbound flights were canceled, according to FlightAware.
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