Flights delayed at Northeast airports

Airline passengers at airports in New York City and Philadelphia are facing flight delays as long as 1 1/2 hours, the Newark, N.J., Star Ledger reports.

The delays are the result of a massive rainstorm that has deluged the Northeast U.S. this week.

Airlines began waving fees for passengers rebooking flights at airports in the region before the storm began.

{mosads}The Star Ledger reported on Wednesday morning that flights at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Philadelphia International Airport were backed up by more than an hour.

The paper reported that the Federal Aviation Administration was attributing the delays to “weather/low ceilings,” which is the agency’s terminology for cloudy skies.

The FAA said flights that were scheduled to arrive at LaGuardia were delayed an average of 1 hour and 33 minutes Wednesday. Flights that were scheduled to land in Philadelphia were behind schedule by 1 hour and 55 minutes.