Reagan National Airport re-opened its runways late Thursday morning, after a day and a half after they halted flights.
There have been more snowplows than planes on several airport runways this week as a brutal storm buried the Mid-Atlantic under two feet of snow or more.
Passenger John Jenkins spent the night in Reagan National Airport after his Wednesday flight was canceled and then learned the airfield remained closed when his Thursday morning flight was scheduled to take off. He now hopes to leave for New Orleans on Friday.
“I’m just trying to get to Mardi Gras!” He lamented. “I need to celebrate with my Saints!”
Vickie Johnson says it took her six hours on the phone with her airline to reschedule a flight and a three-hour drive to Reagan from her home in DC. It took two hours just to get out of her neighborhood which was piled high with snow.
“If I worked this hard to get here, I think it’s going to be the best vacation ever,” Johnson said. She’s. Now on an afternoon flight to Fort Lauderdale.