Flight cancellations and delays reported at area airports
People sleep in Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport, where all flights were canceled due to a plane crashing into an emergency vehicle. Credit: Newsday/James Carbone
The shutdown of LaGuardia Airport, along with TSA personnel shortages caused by the lapse in federal funding and poor weather, combined to worsen travel conditions at other area airports.
FlightAware.com, which tracks airline disruptions, reported 117 flight cancellations at LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports, and another 68 delays.
Qsensor, which also tracks airport conditions, reported an average wait time of 140 minutes — up substantially from the usual 11 minutes — at JFK's TSA PreCheck.
Alfonso Castillo has been reporting for Newsday since 1999 and covering the transportation beat since 2008. He grew up in the Bronx and Queens and now lives in Valley Stream with his wife and two sons.
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