{"id":236859,"date":"2026-07-06T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236859\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:06:07","slug":"flights-diverted-to-pittsburgh-international-during-sunday-night-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236859\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights diverted to Pittsburgh International during Sunday night storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen planes diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport Sunday night amid severe thunderstorms on the East Coast, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The flights included planes bound for Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and three major airports serving New York City: LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport, Kerlik said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the planes left after several hours last night, and the rest left Monday morning, said airport spokesman Bob Kerlik.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh International\u2019s roster of flights saw a significant number of delays and cancellations due to the weather conditions, Kerlik said.<\/p>\n<p>More than three dozen flights out of Pittsburgh International were delayed as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen planes diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport Sunday night amid severe thunderstorms on the East Coast, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-236859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}