MacArthur travelers turned away
Islip’s Long Island MacArthur Airport was largely quiet on Friday evening as passengers who were turned away either waited for rides or hoped for the ground stop to come to an end.
Fred Keller, a Selden native who was headed to Orlando for his granddaughter’s fifth birthday, kept a positive attitude as he dealt with the sudden stoppage.
“I guess I’m going to be missing that,” he said of the birthday. “But hey, listen, if it happens, it happens … I’ll be on the next plane as soon as they give the OK to fly.”
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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