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As Atlanta airport recovers, only 2 flights from Austin canceled Monday

Screens that typically show the status of incoming and outgoing flights at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were blank early Monday. BEN BRASCH / BEN.BRASCH@COXINC.COM
Screens that typically show the status of incoming and outgoing flights at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were blank early Monday. BEN BRASCH / BEN.BRASCH@COXINC.COM
By Roberto Villalpando
Dec 18, 2017

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport was recovering Monday morning from a power outage that lasted nearly 11 hours on Sunday, but a quick check of the boards at Austin's airport shows only two canceled flights to Atlanta and all seven arriving flights were "on time."

A fire in a Georgia Power underground electrical facility caused the outage at Hartsfield-Jackson, the nation's busiest airport. Nearly 1,200 flights were canceled going into and out of Atlanta, according to flight data tracker Flight Aware.

According to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport’s website, Monday’s five Delta Airlines flights and two Southwest Airlines flights were to arrive from Atlanta as scheduled.

A Delta flight and a Frontier Airlines flight that had been scheduled to leave Austin for Atlanta on Monday morning had been canceled.

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