Disruptions persist as air travel resumes after nationwide ground shutdown: live updates
Their flight to Jacksonville canceled, longtime friends Ann Bruns, 79, and Janice Simpson, 78, opted to hire a driver to transport them six hours from Atlanta to Florida, where they hope to catch a cruise ship departing Sunday.
“We’re about to go on a cruise ship with no clothes on,” Simpson said, because their luggage had already been loaded onto a plane bound for Jacksonville.
Bruns described a day punctuated by confusion, saying that when the duo arrived in Atlanta from Kansas City, “We saw some pilots standing there and we knew something was going on. » They still feel like they have almost no idea what went wrong and threw air travel into turmoil.
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