Live Updates: Disruptions Persist as Air Travel Recovers from Nationwide Ground Stop
Their flight to Jacksonville cancelled, longtime friends Ann Bruns, 79, and Janice Simpson, 78, opted to hire a driver to shuttle them six hours from Atlanta to Florida, where they hope to catch a cruise ship departing on Sunday.
“We’re about to go on a cruise ship with no clothes,” Simpson explained, because their luggage had already been loaded onto a plane bound for Jacksonville.
Bruns described a day punctuated by confusion, saying when the duo arrived in Atlanta from Kansas City, “We saw pilots just standing there, and we knew something was up.” They still feel like they have almost no idea what went wrong to send air travel into turmoil.
