A power outage at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal C early Friday morning caused over a hundred Delta flights to be canceled and lingering delays.
A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the outage began at 4:30 a.m. when contractors accidentally cut feeder cables serving the terminal.
No injuries were reported.
Parking lots 4 and 5 as well as passenger loading bridges were also affected by the outage.
TSA checkpoints were not impacted.
Generators were brought in to help resume operations.
By 10 a.m., some power was restored and some flights finally departed. But by then the damage was done to the travel plans of many passengers.
Some were told they couldn't fly out for hours, or even days. Adding to their fury - no warning of any canceled flights reached them before they got to the airport on a picture perfect summer morning.
"They text me all morning different gates. C7 26 then D 4. I go to D4 and I'm standing there and there's an announcement the flight is canceled. And I'm like, but you've been texting me all of this?" said one air passenger.
"The only thing they can do for us is rebook our flight. Not going to give us a place to stay, nothing to eat. They gave us free water. And we are sitting outside on the ground in a city where we don't know anybody," said another delayed passenger.
Travelers should check with their airlines to see if their flights are affected.