Canada, Toronto:-  It’s a bad, bad day to be travelling in the Greater Toronto Area by any means as a winter storm brings hazardous conditions to local roads, highways, sidewalks, railways and bike lanes… but tarmacs might be the most problematic for those who’ve planned to escape the arctic blast. WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, has “proactively cancelled all scheduled flights arriving and departing Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)” today due to what it calls a “significant winter storm system” scheduled to impact Southern Ontario and Quebec.

The cancellation impacts all flights coming into or out of Pearson beginning at 9:00 a.m. today, Friday, December 23, until end of day. Flights are scheduled to resume by Saturday, December 24, says WestJet, “dependent on weather conditions.” “The service suspension will also impact additional airports in Southern Ontario and Quebec including, Ottawa International Airport (YOW), London International Airport (YXU), the Region of Waterloo International Airport (YKF) and Montreal-Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport (YUL),” reads a notice issued by the airline late Thursday. ‘The proactive cancellations will impact 140 flights across the five airports and were made in consultation with airport authorities and NAV Canada. All impacted guests have been notified.” Some 126 WestJet flights in Southern B.C. were similarly cancelled between Thursday evening until late Friday afternoon.