PASSENGERS at the world’s busiest airport faced a second day of disruption on Monday after a power cut led to hundreds of cancellations.
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport lost power on Sunday, affecting tens of thousands of people. Passengers were left in darkened terminals or on board planes.
Power was restored overnight and a handful of passenger flights resumed just after 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Monday.
Hundreds of other flights, however, were cancelled.
The airport is the world’s busiest, handling more than 250,000 passengers and almost 2,500 flights every day. But during its first hour of operation on Monday morning, fewer than a dozen commercial flights departed.
A number of cargo flights had operated during the partial shutdown.
Thousands remain stranded in the airport awaiting rescheduled flights. In a statement, the airport said it had distributed more than 5,000 meals to waiting passengers.
Security processing began at about 03:30 local time, it said, but those with tickets dated Sunday would need to reprint them to pass through checkpoints.
The airport advised passengers to check the status of their particular flight directly with their airline.
