JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: Residents in the Northeast are bracing for a storm that could bring heavy snow during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. The storm has Boston in its sights. That could affect travel at Boston's Logan Airport. For the latest, here's Victoria Block of CNN Boston affiliate WHDH -- Victoria.</s>VICTORIA BLOCK, WHDH-TV REPORTER: Jeanne, Logan Airport is definitely bracing for the worst, Massport officials telling us they have already seen a spike in airline loads, which means that a lot of people who were planning to fly out tomorrow are trying to book onto flights today.</s>BLOCK (voice-over): On a normal day, Logan handles about 1,500 flights in and out of here. Massport says, by late today, expect to see airlines thinning their schedule, combining and canceling flights that could add up to a reduction of at least 30 percent or more. Airlines are beginning the process to determine how to arrange their flights.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the reason for that is Boston is an airport where we overnight a lot of airplanes because we're first-out airport in the morning, first flights out, we're last flights in. The airlines don't want to get their equipment trapped here Saturday night into Sunday if it's a very big blizzard where Logan becomes bogged down and they have a lot of aircraft that are stuck at this airport.</s>BLOCK: From the air to the rails, they are beefing up, Amtrak adding another 1,500 seats on Northeast Corridor trains today, and another 3,000 seats tomorrow. Extra personnel will be strategically placed at switching stations to make sure trains get to the right tracks. And they'll make sure all signal points are clear.</s>BLOCK: Here at Logan, they will be in what they call a Condition 3, which means all personnel will be on site, about 100 pieces of equipment will be out at the airport in strategic areas. And they will also be monitoring all of the sister airports along the Eastern Corridor so that they get a better handle of what we can expect up here. I'm Victoria Block reporting live from Logan Airport for CNN.
Boston Braces for New Year's Weekend Nor'easter