Out of options, Baxter and Rose slept on the floor or in chairs, ate lots of airport food and watched their fellow non-travelers grow more angry and frustrated, Baxter said. Southwest gave them a voucher but didn’t offer a hotel, Rose said, adding that, with no cars to rent, everyone was "stranded and waiting to catch a flight that just might be canceled." "But I got a text from the airlines saying that the flight to LaGuardia had been canceled - not rebooked - canceled." "The plan was for family to drive down from New Hampshire to pick us up," Baxter said.
Southwest officials then told Baxter that she and Rose had been rebooked on flights to Kansas City and then LaGuardia Airport in New York. Canceled flightsĪfter leaving Ontario and arriving in Chicago on Saturday, Southwest Airlines officials told them their flight to Boston Logan International Airport had been canceled for a variety of reasons.
"I'm just hoping our flight doesn't get canceled," Rose, 15, said.
On Monday afternoon, the duo finally boarded a flight bound for Sacramento International Airport, with Ontario International Airport in their sights after that. Barring any problems, they were expected back in Southern California by 7:30 p.m. 18, and fearing more cancellations, Baxter and Rose decided it was time to return home. Knowing that her granddaughter was due back in school on Oct. They decided to travel during Rose’s fall break, Baxter told the Daily Press on Sunday night: "But instead of visiting family in New Hampshire, several of our flights got canceled, and we got stuck living here at the airport." ET to catch a Delta flight to Cincinnati that was supposed leave at 10:30 a.m.A High Desert grandmother and granddaughter were stranded at Chicago Midway International Airport for nearly three days after Southwest Airlines canceled nearly a third of its scheduled flights over the weekend.Īpple Valley High School student Katelyn Rose and her grandmother, Paula Baxter, canceled their East Coast trip and were headed back home Monday after calling the Chicago airport their temporary home. The New York-based writer told NBC News in a phone interview that she arrived at the airport with her husband and another relative around 9:15 a.m. One traveler, Judy Antell, has been stranded at LaGuardia since early Friday. The results have been minimal impacts to efficiency while maintaining consistent levels of safety in the national airspace system." We've mitigated the impact by augmenting staffing, rerouting traffic, and increasing spacing between aircraft as needed. "As with severe storms, we will adjust operations to a safe rate to match available controller resources. "We have experienced a slight increase in sick leave at two air traffic control facilities affecting New York and Florida," the FAA said in a statement. Newark airport is seeing some delays due to wind and weather, the FAA said. There are, however, still residual delays in the system, especially at LaGuardia. that the system is getting back to normal as replacement controllers arrive at centers in Washington and Jacksonville center. LaGuardia was hit hardest of those three airports because their flight schedules are tilted more toward morning, the official said. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark airports. The delays across the East Coast could be traced to staffing shortages at air traffic centers outside of Washington, D.C., and Jacksonville, Florida, according to an official with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the John F. ET and were part of a ripple effect involving other airports in the region, including the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and the Philadelphia International Airport. The delays at LaGuardia were reported just after 10 a.m. By 4:15 p.m., delays were nearly 75 minutes, the FAA said. The FAA said on its website Friday morning that flights at LaGuardia Airport in New York City were being delayed almost 90 minutes, and urged travelers to check the site to see if they are affected. It should be abundantly clear to the American people that federal workers are not faceless bureaucrats." "This never should have happened and it must never happen again. "It is wonderful news that the there is a deal to end this senseless shutdown, and the lockout of nearly a million Americans from their jobs or their paychecks," the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement.
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