Long-awaited summer vacations and even surgeries were thrown into turmoil Friday after a global tech outage that crippled industries worldwide forced furious Americans to miss flights and camp out in airports overnight.
Long-awaited summer vacations and even surgeries were thrown into turmoil Friday after a global tech outage that crippled industries worldwide forced furious Americans to miss flights and camp out overnight in airports.
“This is bulls–t,” Gary Robertson, a frustrated Queens father, raged at JFK Airport early Friday after learning his family’s flight was among the hundreds canceled US-wide due to the unprecedented glitch.
In the Big Apple alone, LaGuardia Airport had axed 60 flights and delayed more than 100, while JFK travelers on dozens of flights were hit with lengthy delays and 38 canceled flights by mid-morning as the fallout from the global crisis spread.
An agitated Robertson — who was flanked by his wife, the two kids and piles of luggage — had been scheduled to fly down to Orlando, Fla., where they then planned to set off on a cruise vacation.
“[It’s] extremely frustrating when you’re schlepping all the bags and you got two young kids, you know, and obviously you work hard to plan your trip to go away and mellow out a little bit — and then you got to deal with more aggravation,” Robertson, a 42-year-old salesman, told The Post.
“It’s not how I wanted this day to start out.”
“It’s a little chaotic,” he added of the scenes inside the airport. “Some of the people you talk to in lines are definitely very frustrated because they’re definitely in the same predicament.”
Meanwhile, Matt Jordan, a music professor left stranded at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, feared he and his partner may miss their Alaskan cruise, which sets sail on Saturday, after their travel plans were upended by the outage.
