{"id":335607,"date":"2026-07-10T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:18:08","slug":"orlando-airport-travelers-threatened-with-arrest-700wlw-aviation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335607\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando airport travelers threatened with arrest | 700WLW | Aviation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1,000 travel-weary passengers were forced to wait for their checked luggage for over five hours at a Florida airport due to severe storms and were threatened with arrest if they left the building empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>International travelers arriving at Orlando International Airport on three separate Virgin Atlantic flights were met with a rude welcome to the Sunshine State when \u201cadverse weather\u201d delayed\u00a0operations over the weekend, according to\u00a0the Orlando Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger Carol Wick had just returned home to Orlando from a two-week trip to Croatia with her husband. She detailed the troubles she ran into during her 48-hour journey home that included multiple delays and a canceled flight.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/01\/us-news\/orlando-airport-travelers-threatened-with-arrest-as-theyre-met-with-hours-long-delay-waiting-for-luggage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando airport travelers threatened with arrest as they\u2019re met with hours long delay waiting for luggage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 travel-weary passengers were forced to wait for their checked luggage for over five hours at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138216,9786,46465,35667,138218,139,141,140,60248,92134,729,221,138219,138217],"class_list":["post-335607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-700wlw","tag-bengals","tag-big-one","tag-cincinnati-news","tag-cincy","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-reds","tag-school-closings","tag-traffic","tag-weather","tag-willie","tag-wlw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}