Posted on 02/17/2023 7:13:39 AM PST by bitt
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 1 will remain closed Friday due to electrical issues, the airport said late Thursday.
Friday's closure comes after a Thursday night power outage at the terminal disrupted more than 100 flights at the city's busiest airport. The airport tweeted that an electrical panel failure, which caused a small fire that was immediately extinguished, was responsible for the overnight outage.
image
Some 30 flights into or out of JFK were canceled on Friday, according to data from FlightAware, a website that tracks flight cancellations and delays.
"Travelers should check with their carriers for flight status before coming to the airport," JFK officials tweeted in announcing the terminal's closure on Friday.
Airport officials are working with the Port Authority to resolve the issue "as quickly as possible," the airport wrote on Twitter. The airport has been operating affected outbound flights from other terminals, such as Terminal 4, since Thursday, to minimize service disruptions, CBS News New York reported.
Passengers expressed frustration with the delays and cancellations.
"It feels like a movie, like it's not real," traveler Isabella Bivas told CBS News New York. "I'm still waiting for them to say it's a joke."
Some inbound international flights were diverted to other airports along the East Coast such as Boston and Newark. One trans-Pacific flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to New York was forced to turn back due to the outage, with the Boeing 787 making a U-turn at its halfway point, near Hawaii, according to Bloomberg News. Passengers essentially had a 16-hour flight to nowhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
this sounds suspicious...
Sounds like a scene from the movie Ground Control...
3rd world infrastructure
We either have:
1. terrorist activities
2. incompetent DEI hires
3. spent so much on illegals, welfare, and woke crap that there is no money for basic maintenance and safety.
Which is it?
The roads are crumbling all across California because we are spending so much of our taxes on bums, homeless, illegals, as well as unions, political graft and corruption.
JFK has six operating airline terminals including 128 gates numbered 1 to 8 but without Terminals 3 and 6. Terminal 1 was opened in 1998 with a partnership with four key operating airlines: Air France, Japan Airlines, Korean Air and Lufthansa.
The New Terminal One officially broke ground this past September and construction is underway. The terminal will be built in phases, with the arrivals and departures halls and 14 new gates opening in 2026 and completion of nine additional gates by 2030. The New Terminal One will serve as a global gateway to the New York metropolitan area and set a standard for world-class design and service through innovative, stress-free, passenger processing, immersive retail and dining experiences, and an iconic architecture and art program. The New Terminal One aspires to be recognized as among the top ten airport terminals in the world.
The $9+ billion first phase is the largest single asset project financing in US history.
WOW, I guess we just can’t get good help anymore for any amount of money.
Have not been to JFK since 1997.
Not a pleasant airport at that time
I’ve been to JFK and I doubt very much if a fire along with a power outage would even be noticed.
But wind and solar?
Paging Pete Buttplug, another mess to avoid. What’s your woke and equitable socialist solution, faggot?
Mayor Pete will be right on this latest transportation crisis. And by that I mean he’ll do nothing for a week, then issue a statement blaming Trump.
Now that's a bummer.
“this sounds suspicious...”
Perhaps semi-nuked from orbit, aka remotely. Very remotely as from another nation.
All ya need is an internet connection and super duper hacking skills. And to live in Bulgaria or Russia.
Lol.
It will be the world’s largest homeless shelter.
You heard it here first.
They want to compete with O’Hare? Lol /s
Too many white “cis-gender” people working there? /sarc
I was there in 2007....one of the worst airports I’ve ever been to...in the US.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.