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JFK boards showed little sign of ground stop, FOX 5 reports

Stephanie Bertini found travelers without airline notifications as the nationwide disruption unfolded, in a report drawing an unusually large audience.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 652,318 views a day, 101 times a normal first day on this channel (6,445).

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0:15Flight boards show ordinary-looking delays, with little visible indication of the nationwide shutdown.
1:05Bertini says none of the dozen travelers she spoke with had received airline notifications about the ground stop.
1:14An air traffic control source says international departures are being allowed from JFK and Newark as airport space tightens.
1:50Bertini describes worsening conditions, including travelers sitting on floors and long restroom lines.

Passengers were sitting on floors and restroom lines were lengthening, but the departure boards looked much like an ordinary day of delays. Reporting from JFK during Friday's nationwide ground stop, FOX 5 New York's Stephanie Bertini found a gap between the scale of the disruption and the information reaching travelers.

Outside Terminal 8, Bertini said none of the dozen people she had spoken with had received an airline notification about the ground stop. Her walk through departures and baggage claim had revealed confusion, with few visible signs explaining what was happening.

The report also captured the pressure on airport space. Citing an air traffic control source, Bertini said international departures were being allowed from JFK and Newark at that point, while arriving aircraft needed somewhere to go. The cause of the communications outage remained unknown during the broadcast.

The brief report drew roughly 650,000 views in its first day, about a hundred times the channel's usual opening for regular videos. FOX 5's separate ground-stop livestream also attracted an unusually large audience.

This was coverage from inside the shutdown, not a statement of present flight conditions. In subsequent reports, FOX 5 covered resumed flights, lingering cancellations and delays, and what disrupted travelers should know about their rights.

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