Icelandair has cancelled flights to and from Orlando today and tomorrow due to the approaching hurricane Milton. US President Joe Biden has urged those under mandatory evacuation orders in Florida to “evacuate immediately.”
Flights cancelled today and tomorrow
Icelandair has cancelled its scheduled flights to and from Orlando, Florida, this afternoon and tomorrow as hurricane Milton nears the peninsula.
In an interview with Mbl.is last night, Guðni Sigurðsson, Icelandair’s spokesperson, noted that a flight from Orlando to Iceland last night had been pushed forward and a flight from Iceland to Orlando yesterday afternoon had been cancelled. According to Guðni, the airline is keeping customers with booked flights informed via text messages.
Biden: “Evacuate now”
Hurricane Milton is approaching the Florida Peninsula from the Gulf of Mexico.
As noted by CNN, the National Hurricane Centre warns that tropical storm conditions are anticipated to start along Florida’s west coast around midday today, gradually spreading across the peninsula and reaching the east coast by night.
Although Milton has weakened slightly over the past hours, it remains a category five storm, with winds of up to 270 km/h (165mph). Milton is expected to be the most powerful to hit the area in a century. President Joe Biden has urged those Floridians residing in areas under mandatory evacuation to evacuate immediately; it was a matter of life and death.
As noted by the BBC, Milton follows less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene – the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005 – which claimed at least 225 lives, with hundreds more still missing.
