Computer woes, storms snarl Phila. airline traffic

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2007 | by Tom Belden Inquirer Staff Writer

Airline traffic was snarled yesterday afternoon at Philadelphia International and other airports because of computer problems at the Federal Aviation Administration, combined with thunderstorms and a heavy volume of traffic, officials said.

In late afternoon, dozens of Philadelphia flights on all airlines were running from a few minutes to several hours late, according to the airport's Web site, www.phl.org. The site is continuously updated at the same time as flight-information monitors at the airport. Both arrivals and departures were affected, with flights to the upper Midwest and Northeast hit particularly hard because of thunderstorms in those regions.

"There's a major weather system in the Midwest...