Federal officials lifted a ground stop at Denver International Airport on Friday evening after severe thunderstorms swept across the Front Range, delaying arriving flights by 3 hours on average.
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The Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights headed to DIA at 3:25 p.m. because of the weather, lifting the order at around 6:30 p.m.
Arriving flights were delayed by 2 hours and 54 minutes on average as of 7 p.m. because of the weather, federal officials said.
More than 1,000 flights were delayed or canceled at the airport on Friday evening, data from the flight tracking website FlightAware showed. There were 972 flight delays and 113 canceled flights as of 6:55 p.m., including 357 delays on United flight delays, 277 delays on Southwest, 169 on SkyWest and 64 on Frontier.
Skywest canceled 95 flights, followed by Frontier Airlines with eight cancellations and United with four and Southwest with three.
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