{"id":71308,"date":"2025-12-27T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:59:14","slug":"winter-weather-disrupts-travel-at-philadelphia-international-airport-during-post-christmas-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71308\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather disrupts travel at Philadelphia International Airport during post-Christmas rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/snow-ice-weather-philadelphia-dec-26\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snow and wintry weather<\/a> is causing travel disruptions on one of the busiest travel days at Philadelphia International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The lines were long Friday morning inside Terminal D, and even though the crowds thinned out by the afternoon, the rush was still on to beat the winter storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very nerve-wracking, it&#8217;s busy, but we&#8217;re excited to see family in another country, so it&#8217;s going to be worth it,&#8221; said Grace Nabacwa, who is heading to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>With snow and freezing rain in the forecast, the weather was causing Nabacwa and many others some added stress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;m out of here before it snows. I&#8217;m ready for some sun,&#8221; Nabacwa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was going to be earlier, but it looks like that storm is coming in a little bit later so I was a little worried,&#8221; said a traveler headed for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>More than 94,000 passengers are expected to fly in and out of Philly Friday. Saturday is another busy day, but delays and cancellations started increasing Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of those are to smaller regional airports or areas that are going to get hit with the same storm we are looking at,&#8221; said Heather Redfern, public affairs manager at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to hopefully beat it out of here, so I think we&#8217;ll be OK and be in the air before the weather hits here,&#8221; said Tim Hulings.<\/p>\n<p>Tim and Julia Hulings are bound for a post-Christmas trip to Rome, and they are thankful their flight was scheduled to leave before the snow started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on vacation, so just low-stress,&#8221; Hulings said.<\/p>\n<p>Redfern is reminding everyone to check with your airline for the most up to date information about your flight, and arrive at the airport early, especially with the winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The snow and wintry weather is causing travel disruptions on one of the busiest travel days at Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,1013,70,4491],"class_list":["post-71308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308","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=71308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}