Daily Mail News UK
Nearly 2,000 flights have been delayed across the East Coast as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to plague the nation’s airways.
Travel chaos is set to continue through Thursday due to the hazardous smog, with the number of delays expected to rise after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered several East Coast airports to halt activity due to poor visibility.
Around 75 million people are currently under some level of air quality alert Thursday, as residents in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia are being choked by air quality which ranks worse than the most polluted cities in the world such as Lahore, Pakistan and Delhi, India.