Nearly 1,800 DIA flights canceled or delayed due to weekend winter conditions

Just under 600 flights were canceled or delayed Sunday at Denver International Airport as light snow continued to fall across the mountains and Front Range and temperatures remained below freezing across the state.

As of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, 496 flights at DIA had been delayed and another 96 canceled entirely, according to data from flight-tracking software FlightAware.

That’s fewer than Saturday at the Denver airport, where at least 1,120 flights were delayed and 70 more were canceled. So far this weekend, that brings the total number of delayed and canceled flights to just under 1,800.

United led the way in flight delays this weekend with 364 on Saturday and 139 on Sunday, according to FlightAware data. The southwest followed closely with 353 delays on Saturday and 148 on Sunday.

Frontier, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Delta, Key Lime Air, JetBlue, Southern Express Airways, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Allegiant Air, AeroMexico, Jazz, VivaAerobus, British Airways, Cayman Airways, Copa Airlines, Envoy Air, Icelandair, Volaris and Air France all flights delayed at DIA this weekend.

SkyWest, the airline that operates United Express, canceled the most flights on both days – 41 on Saturday and 36 on Sunday, according to FlightAware.

United and Southwest both canceled 42 flights between Saturday and Sunday, eclipsing two canceled by Frontier.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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