After a night of fitful sleep on airport floors, some travelers are still stuck amid thousands of flight cancellations following Friday’s ground stop.
Travelers across the United States on Saturday morning were still feeling the frustrating, plan-ruining aftershocks of the ground stop that halted air travel for hours on Friday.
“I’ve been right here for 20 hours,” said Jasmine Harp, a passenger at Kennedy International Airport in New York. “I have not showered, I have not slept. It’s torture.”
Ms. Harp, 25, was going on 48 hours of travel, trying to get home to Detroit after spending a week in Paris for her birthday.
She had just sat down in her airplane seat on Friday when the pilot told passengers to deplane. A few hours later, the flight was canceled. She described a mad dash to the baggage claim, where passengers worked to secure their luggage.
“They just dumped everybody’s bags off all at once,” she said. “It was chaotic.”
To make matters worse, Ms. Harp had left the gate area but still had to wait for her rebooked flight, which was to depart at 3 p.m. the next day. That meant no restaurants, no shops and, most uncomfortably, no seats. She found a luggage counter to perch on.
