“So then I looked up at the (departure/arrival) boards and all of the East Coast flights were remarked, which means they changed the times. I ran to the restroom and came back and there were all these people sitting at the bar, and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness! This is not normal,’” Grimm said. I left my house at 6 to come out here,” Whisner said.Īll in all, it had been a strange day at the airport, said Katelyn Grimm, 27, of Midland, a server/bartender at the airport restaurant Buford’s Kitchen. “Her flight should have been here in Pittsburgh at 11:15. She figured she would come to the airport and surprise Linda, who was flying in from Vancouver, Wash., and planning to rent a car and drive to Paula’s house. “So, no, I’m not confident at all.”Ī couple of seats away, Paula Whisner, 76, was patiently waiting for the arrival of her younger sister Linda, whom she hadn’t seen in more than 16 years. “It doesn’t seem like anybody really knows what the problem is or what caused it,” he said. Hartman said he wasn’t entirely confident he was going to make it to the West Coast by the time he needed to be there.
It’s the entire country, so I’m not going to complain about it.”
It’s a headache that everybody’s dealing with.
“My flight was initially delayed a couple of hours and then another two hours after that. “I woke up to the big story of the system outage,” Hartman said. His American Airlines flight was scheduled to leave shortly after 11 a.m.
ARRIVING FLIGHTS PITTSBURGH MOVIE
Movie producer Brian Hartman, 55, of Regent Square was in a hurry to get to Los Angeles to work with a composer on his Pittsburgh-shot film “Unsinkable” about the Titanic disaster. “I’m going to have to be late (for classes),” Wellejus said. But the earliest flight she was able to rebook doesn’t leave until Tuesday. George’s University in Grenada and needed to be back by Monday for the start of the semester. She’s a student of veterinary medicine at St. on an American Airlines flight to Grenada, West Indies, via Miami. I was supposed to be there today.”Ĭlaire Wellejus, 26, of Erie was supposed to be flying out at 6 a.m. “I have to go home, and I’m hoping to reschedule on Friday because I need to be (in Myrtle Beach). I was supposed to fly out three hours ago. His American Airlines flight was canceled. Kirk Zelich, 27, of Shaler works for a concrete company and was supposed to be flying to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on business. Usually we get questions from people coming in looking for their baggage - but nobody’s coming in.”Īnd early on, nobody was going out. I got here at 9:30, and usually we’re getting lots of questions but not today,” Bayla said.
He said he heard about the flight problems on the radio while driving to the airport. Passengers expecting to be on flights or already at their destinations sat forlornly contemplating their next move: wait for that day’s next available flight, rebook, or pack it in and go home.ĭon Bayla, who volunteers as an Airport Ambassador and is a former US Airways employee, said the closest thing he could compare it to was 9/11, when terrorist attacks brought all flights to a halt. The carousels in the normally bustling baggage claim were empty. Wednesday, Pittsburgh International Airport looked as though it was in a state of suspended animation.Ī computer glitch in a government system largely brought airlines to a halt, delaying or canceling thousands of flights across the U.S.
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