B7 Chaos at JFK airport with storm backlog

NEW YORK: Chaos reigned at New York’s flagship airport for a third consecutive day Sunday (Monday in passengers stranded by chronic delays blamed on brutal cold and a deadly winter storm.

- CNN footage showed. rupted into Terminal Four at “What happened at JFK Airport John F. Kennedy International compounding chaos blamed on a Port Authority of New York and “cascading series of issues.”

Water poured from the ceilfor area airports. “We will hold ing and the arrivals area was those responsible accountable submerged by around three inch he added. through which a few intrepid pasThe incident highlighted com plaints about poor infrastructure crisis in the subway and derailments in recent years on commuter trains.

The cause of the break appeared to be “weather-related” but would pipe had not been weather protected and whether other failures

After the pipe broke and water - er to the affected areas was shut off

Domestic arrivals and depar operated with delays. A string of to other airports or terminals.

Terminal 4 is used by more than - pore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.

Crazy

Tempers flared for days among with others stranded on planes for hours waiting to access a gate and massive delays in baggage claim.

- other hour at customs and then an hour and a half to wait for his luggage.

“There’s still like a hundred he told Agence France-Presse. “I’m pretty exhausted. I’m waiting to said. “People were starting to be pretty angry.”

old software consultant en route - parison to airports such as Dubai in his home country.

just look around; there’s no place Donuts is closed.”

extreme cold and storm recovery “created a cascading series of is

gripped by days of record-breaking cold temperatures after a storm -

froze with a Sunday morning low of minus two degrees Fahrenheit

Highs below freezing lingered due to rise from Monday.