ATLANTA — A huge power outage brought the world's busiest airport to a standstill over the weekend, ruining holiday travel for thousands with hundreds of flights on Monday already canceled.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta lost power shortly after 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, leaving passengers trapped inside airport terminals and some in planes on the tarmac for hours.
By late Sunday, the airport had canceled 1,173 flights and delayed 207, according to FlightAware.com. Delta Air Lines, which is headquartered in Atlanta, said it was canceling another 300 flights, mostly to Atlanta, on Monday.
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4 comments:
The airport was as dark as the city and no one was working in either place.
This is what happens to ANY area that keeps adding on "users" without upgrading the facilities.. Example: Verizon and Comcast.. Both raking in millions $ and not providing the service we pay for. Too big to fail and too big to control, just like the banks.
Did they determine the cause yet? Jihadists?
It's amazing how vulnerable the power grid is. It's scary.
1019-Verizon has spent over 35B upgrading it's network in just the last two years. Agreed to purchase 12 million miles of fiber lines each of the next three years, replacing it's entire copper network over the next few years and expand fiber for 5G network that's coming. Looks like you don't know what you're talking about lol
Doing all that, while paying an effective corporate tax rate of over 33%. The new tax cuts will do wonders for American industry!
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