{"id":685508,"date":"2026-05-22T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:04:10","slug":"sinkhole-at-major-airport-causes-hundreds-of-flight-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685508\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole at major airport causes hundreds of flight delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on May. 21, 2026, 9:55 PM<\/p>\n

Crews discovered the sinkhole next to the runway during a routine inspection on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Thousands of fliers continued dealing with long delays Thursday after authorities found a sinkhole<\/a> next to the runway at a major destination for Canadian travellers.<\/p>\n

Crews with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey found a sinkhole next to one of New York-LaGuardia Airport\u2019s two runways during an inspection on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe runway was immediately shut down, and emergency construction and engineering crews are onsite to determine the cause and complete necessary repairs as quickly and safely as possible,\u201d the Port Authority said on X on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LaGuardia Airport has only two runways: 4\/22 and 13\/31. The sinkhole has shunted hundreds of daily flights onto a single runway, 13\/31, slowing the number of incoming and outgoing flights at this busy New York City airport.<\/p>\n

Stormy weather conditions in the New York area have caused further delays and cancellations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LaGuardia routinely ranks as one of the busiest routes out of Toronto-Pearson, Toronto-Billy Bishop, and Montreal-Trudeau, ferrying thousands of passengers each way across the border on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May. 21, 2026, 9:55 PM Crews discovered the sinkhole next to the runway during a routine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,77],"class_list":["post-685508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}