IN the United States of America, Airlines, on Sunday  suspended more than 5,000 flights, and Amtrak suspended its train service across the Northeast as well, as tens of millions of people, remained locked in preparations for  Hurricane Sandy, dubbed ‘a rare hybrid storm’.

Schools and other institutions and services are being closed as well, as disaster preparedness heightens, for the storm which threatens to bring life-threatening surge and menace 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the U.S.
MSN news report yesterday said forecasters have warned that New York could be in particular peril. On Sunday evening, New York and Philadelphia moved to shut down their subways, buses and trains, and announced that schools would be closed on Monday as well.
Meanwhile, Caribbean Airlines on Sunday announced that it has cancelled flights in and out New York’s JFK International Airport for Sunday and Monday as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

On its web site, the Airline said: “Caribbean Airlines wishes to advise the public that due to adverse weather conditions affecting the JFK International Airport due to Hurricane Sandy, flight cancellations into and out of JFK for the 28th and the 29th of October are as follows:

The following flights for Sun 28th Oct were cancelled:
BW011
BW017

The following flights for Mon 29th Oct were also cancelled:
BW520/521
BW016
BW010
BW525
BW015
BW014
BW011
BW017
Passengers are further advised that BW525 which departs JFK on the 29th Oct has been rescheduled and is now arriving GEO at 3:05pm
Passengers are advised to visit our website (http://www.caribbean-airlines.com), Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica Facebook pages or call the following telephone numbers for flight-specific information

Trinidad: 1 868 625 7200
Jamaica: 1 888 359 2475
Caribbean toll free: 1 800 744 2225
Caribbean Airlines North America toll free: 1 800 920 4225
Air Jamaica North America toll free: 1 800 523 5585