\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHundreds of Thanksgiving weekend travelers were hit with flight delays at Pittsburgh International Airport on Sunday, as weather across parts of the Midwest caused dozens of flights to run behind schedule. The holiday weekend was the first true stress test on the new landside airport terminal since it opened earlier in November. \u201cMy flight was originally scheduled at 2 p.m., and it\u2019s been delayed for, like, six hours,\u201d said Zexian He, who was headed back to Purdue University.He planned to land in Chicago and take a bus to campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, but after spending hours in the airport, that bus had already left.\u201cIt\u2019s snowing heavily back in West Lafayette, so I probably need to dig my car out of snow,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the best experience, I would say.\u201dWeather delays also affected warmer-weather cities. Renee Gang, who was flying to Pensacola, Florida, was delayed about 40 minutes. \u201cI have somebody that\u2019s supposed to be waiting on me at Pensacola to pick me up,\u201d Gang said. \u201cSo now that\u2019s going to be delayed for them as well.\u201dBeyond delays, the airport wasn’t too busy Sunday evening. Transportation Security Administration lines averaged about 15 minutes. Travelers said the biggest issues with their experience were the busy parking areas at the new terminal. \u201cWe had to drive around quite a few times because the signs aren’t clearly marked,\u201d Gang said. \u201cYou used to look for short-term, long-term, and now it just says terminal, but it also says to go to shuttle and it\u2019s just a nightmare.\u201dSome travelers also reported long lines at airline check-in and bag drop counters. But others arriving in Pittsburgh said the arrival experience has greatly improved with the new terminal.\u201cBaggage was pretty fast, like 10 minutes or so,” said Kailey Schubert and Jake Mortimer, who flew in from Boston. “What Pittsburgh has done here, I think, is phenomenal as far as keeping the flow of traffic going smoothly, keeping the people moving toward baggage claim,” said Todd Fuller, who flew in from Fort Myers. “The doors right off the baggage claim now, as opposed to the way the old airport was, is phenomenal.”\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Hundreds of Thanksgiving weekend travelers were hit with flight delays at Pittsburgh International Airport on Sunday, as weather across parts of the Midwest caused dozens of flights to run behind schedule. <\/p>\n
The holiday weekend was the first true stress test on the new landside airport terminal since it opened earlier in November. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy flight was originally scheduled at 2 p.m., and it\u2019s been delayed for, like, six hours,\u201d said Zexian He, who was headed back to Purdue University.<\/p>\n
He planned to land in Chicago and take a bus to campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, but after spending hours in the airport, that bus had already left.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s snowing heavily back in West Lafayette, so I probably need to dig my car out of snow,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the best experience, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weather delays also affected warmer-weather cities. Renee Gang, who was flying to Pensacola, Florida, was delayed about 40 minutes. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have somebody that\u2019s supposed to be waiting on me at Pensacola to pick me up,\u201d Gang said. \u201cSo now that\u2019s going to be delayed for them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond delays, the airport wasn’t too busy Sunday evening. Transportation Security Administration lines averaged about 15 minutes. Travelers said the biggest issues with their experience were the busy parking areas at the new terminal. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to drive around quite a few times because the signs aren’t clearly marked,\u201d Gang said. \u201cYou used to look for short-term, long-term, and now it just says terminal, but it also says to go to shuttle and it\u2019s just a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some travelers also reported long lines at airline check-in and bag drop counters. But others arriving in Pittsburgh said the arrival experience has greatly improved with the new terminal.<\/p>\n
\u201cBaggage was pretty fast, like 10 minutes or so,” said Kailey Schubert and Jake Mortimer, who flew in from Boston. <\/p>\n
“What Pittsburgh has done here, I think, is phenomenal as far as keeping the flow of traffic going smoothly, keeping the people moving toward baggage claim,” said Todd Fuller, who flew in from Fort Myers. “The doors right off the baggage claim now, as opposed to the way the old airport was, is phenomenal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Thanksgiving weekend travelers were hit with flight delays at Pittsburgh International Airport on Sunday, as weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28361,4632,17879,28365,17585,11408,28358,24668,28359,6760,15715,28360,28364,73,75,6846,74,28362,1274,1133,28366,28363],"class_list":["post-49086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baggage","tag-bus","tag-delay","tag-dozen","tag-experience","tag-flight","tag-flight-delays","tag-holiday-travel","tag-holiday-traveler","tag-hour","tag-minute","tag-new-landside-airport-terminal","tag-pensacola","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-renee-gang","tag-thanksgiving","tag-weather","tag-weather-related-delay","tag-west-lafayette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49086","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=49086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}