

"It's not the worst thing that could happen, but I am going to be sitting here for two more hours," Vu said. Her travel plans Wednesday included what she said was only the third flight she'd ever taken, and it was supposed to be with Southwest Airlines so that she could be with her family in Ohio.īut Vu's flight was canceled, she said, and she'd been moved to a different flight later in the day. Van Vu, a 35-year-old technician, doesn't fly frequently, either. "When you realize it's not just you or your one flight but it's everybody, I think it helps to give you perspective." By late afternoon Wednesday, more than 1,300 flights had been canceled and more than 9,000 flights had been delayed throughout the country, according to FlightAware. Millions of passengers elsewhere across the United States, however, were not quite as fortunate.

The Jurich family lies on the ground waiting for their flight Wednesday at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City after the FAA had a computer outage grounding flights nationwide.
