TAMPA, Fla. — Flights out of the Tampa Bay area were greatly affected by severe weather on Monday. Several airports showed multiple cancellations and delays.

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Several airports showed multiple cancellations and delays due to severe weather in the Tampa Bay area on Monday afternoon

This is coming during the busy spring break season

Tampa International Airport (TPA) said it expects up to 80,000 passengers a day to pass through until April 13

Be sure to check with your airline for the latest information

As of 10 p.m., Tampa International Airport (TPA) was reporting more than 240 delayed flights and over 200 were canceled — that’s out of 607 planned flights on Monday.

This is coming during the busy spring break season.

All of TPA’s passengers were dealing with some kind of delay. Estevie Hidalgo was among the passengers who packed TPA’s main terminal, hoping for good news on the arrivals and departures board, and only seeing red.

“All you see when you look up on the board is delays, delays, delays, cancels, cancels, cancels,” he said. “I’ve been stuck in the airport in this process for over 30 hours. I was over in Miami for over a day, waiting, planes being canceled and canceled and canceled, and finally, I made it here to Tampa. They just told me my next flight to Washington was now canceled, so I’m stuck here in Florida until Wednesday night and have no clue what to do at all.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a brief ground stop for flights coming into TPA Monday afternoon due to thunderstorms. That, plus winter storms along the east coast, comes not even two weeks into the spring break travel season at TPA.

The airport said it expects up to 80,000 passengers a day to pass through until April 13. Hidalgo said the extra traffic makes figuring out what to do next more complicated.

“I go online to try to do stuff, and they’re telling me that they can’t do anything for me. So, I have to pretty much be practically homeless in Florida until I figure out a way to either take a bus or a train or this, that, and everything right now is absolutely booked up,” he said.

This comes as the nation is entering the second month of a partial government shutdown that is impacting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. A TPA spokesperson said that they were not seeing any significant delays at security screening checkpoints.

Spectrum News reached out to TSA for more information on whether the airport was seeing any shortage of TSA staff, but we did not hear back. 

Be sure to check with your airline for the latest information.

Check below to see the status of all the flights at Tampa International Airport as well as St. Pete/Clearwater airport.

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