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Oct 29, 2009 6:14 pm US/Eastern

Frontier, United Cancel Flights Due To Colo. Snow

DENVER (CBS) ― The snow storm moving across Colorado is causing headaches for airport travelers, CBS station KCNC-TV reports.

Frontier Airlines canceled 19 flights in and out of Denver International Airport on Thursday because the airport has been unable to keep enough runways and taxiways open. The airline also said some flights have delayed by as much as four hours.

"We will not be surprised if there are delays, there is just too much bad weather in this part of the country, and it's very windy out here now, so we hope that our flight takes off," said one passenger waiting at the ticket check-in counter.

United Airlines, the dominant carrier at DIA, canceled about half of its flights Thursday, about 200 out of 400.

Southwest Airlines canceled about a dozen flights at DIA Thursday.

Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon said DIA crews are keeping up with snow removal and that the airport was up to 64 arrivals per hour by midmorning. He said that's about double the number from hours earlier.

Two east-west runways are closed and the remaining four are open. 174 pieces of snow equipment were working to clear the runways and taxiways, along with snow melting equipment.

There is good news, there is little wait at the security checkpoint lines.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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