Toronto flights returning to normal

Flights at Toronto's Pearson airport were slowly returning to normal Tuesday after a massive storm hammered the eastern seaboard.

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which runs the busy international airport, reported that 133 flights, or 10.8 per cent of flights, were cancelled Tuesday. This is down from the more than 200 flights that were cancelled Monday. A normal cancellation rate is between one and two per cent of flights daily.

Most of the flights affected were bound for East Coast states, including New York, New Jersey and Boston.

Toronto authority officials were not immediately available for interviews, but a recorded message confirmed that "weather is currently affecting flights to and from the northeast United States and the Maritimes."

The authority also encouraged travellers to check the status of their flights before arriving at the airport.

Air Canada officials were also not available for comment.

Meanwhile, eight flights were cancelled out of Montreal's Trudeau airport on Tuesday morning, most bound for New York, northern Quebec or the Maritimes.

Hundreds of people were waiting for flights but may not be able to depart Montreal until at least Thursday.

Nor'easter disrupts power

Thousands of Maritimers were still without power Tuesday morning and flights were delayed in all three provinces after a nor'easter blew through the region the day before.

Most watches and warnings for the Maritimes are over. The only exception is a wind warning in Prince County, P.E.I., where gusts could hit 90 kilometres an hour.

CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe said that in the rest of the Maritimes, wind had died down to below 70 km/h.

The storm brought 15 to 30 centimetres of snow to most parts of New Brunswick. The northeastern city of Bathurst had 41 centimetres, a record for Dec. 27.

In Nova Scotia and P.E.I., the storm brought a mixture of rain and snow, pushed around by gusty winds.