Thousands of flights delayed and cancelled
At airports across the US, passengers scrambled Saturday to figure out how to reach their destinations. Some waited out the chaos in hotels while others sprinted to snag rental cars and bus or train tickets. Many camped out in airports.
Others got creative. Video in Seattle’s airport showed a passenger serenading stressed out travelers with classical music. Stranded strangers in Lexington, Kentucky, participated in a cornhole tournament. The singer T-Pain and the band Hoobastank were captured on video singing to passengers as they waited on commercial airplanes.
Dan Russell, 66, learned his connecting flight from Hawaii to California was canceled a half-hour before boarding was scheduled in San Diego Friday night. Hotels were full, so he and his wife waited at the airport.
“There’s nothing you can do,” Russell said.
At the Newark, N.J., airport, Umi Egchi was trying to figure out when he could return home to Japan.
“I’m not sure exactly what happened. I just want to go home,” said Egchi, who had a sleep mask on top of his head.
Sports teams that traveled for games this weekend adjusted game start times, and No. 19 Mississippi’s football game at Oklahoma was delayed to Sunday.
FlightAware, a website that tracks flights, said more than 6,000 flights within, into or out of the US had been cancelled Saturday.
