Earlier today, Delta crew members flew from Atlanta into New York-JFK. Flights began bringing the first customers in since New York operations were suspended Sunday evening. The first was flight 2350 from Atlanta arriving at 12:02pm followed by Delta flight 269 from Tel Aviv via Detroit which landed at 1:18pm. Dozens of Delta people who have been in and around the airports since Sunday were at the ready. Delta’s flight 9863 departed for Atlanta at 1:34pm and was JFK’s first outbound flight.
We’re slowly getting back up to speed at the airports here.
We’re running about 14 international and 70 domestic flights at JFK this afternoon. A handful of regularly scheduled flights are operating into Newark International Airport tonight and we plan to run a full schedule tomorrow. We expect to be operating more than half of our schedule Thursday at LaGuardia.
After about 3,500 total cancellations since Sunday evening we’re all glad to have flights starting to come and go. At the same time, we’re all too aware that the airports are just one of many places that sustained damage. Our thoughts are with those throughout the Northeast U.S. who have been affected by this superstorm.
Thanks to everyone for your patience. Please stay safe.
By Henry Kuykendall, VP-Airport Customer Service at JFK
November 4th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Well done in getting the service running again.
Unfortunately, Delta is less flexible when it comes to helping people who had to cancel their flights in the aftermath of Sandy. Because one of my foreign colleague’s can no longer use her ticket from LaGuardia, and Delta is refusing to transfer the ticket to anyone else in the company, we, a small business, are down $546. Sad.