WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airlines have resumed on Sunday to limit the operations of the Washington-area airports hit by Hurricane Irene, while New York, the center of the busiest in the nation's air, measured fury of the storm .
With the compensation and damages from the sky feared Irene minimal down some arrivals in the three airports Capital Region - Reagan National and Dulles, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Major airlines canceled nearly every day of service for the entire North-East, and hopes to begin flights on Monday, seriously.
This may take several days to get operations back to normal, the aviation officials said.
Over 10,000 flights were canceled from Friday to Monday, most of the New York-area airports, which handle about 6,000 flights per day and 100 million passengers a year.
Carriers are strongly affected US Airways, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines.
The three New York airports remained closed Sunday morning indeed.
Airlines abandoned northern airports ahead of the storm to keep their device close to hurricane force winds and torrential rains.
Amtrak, the nation's long letters passenger rail service, canceled all trains to the north on Sunday.
(Reporting by John Crawley, and Lisa Lambert, Editing by Bill Trott)
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