The world's largest passenger plane a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 was forced to land at Stewart International Airport on Thursday due to blizzard conditions
After Thursday's winter storm heavily impacted local air travel, John F. Kennedy Airport is working to manage multiple backlogged flights.
Passengers arriving at the Queens airport said on Twitter they have waited as many as six hours on the tarmac before their plane docked at a gate, then as many as eight hours to collect their baggage from carousels.
Singapore Airlines said that as the airport does not cater gates for A380 aircraft, stairs had to be brought to the plane for passengers to disembark. Port Authority officials said no injuries were reported and that all passengers were able to safely disembark, NBC reported.
The plane, carrying 325 passengers, was on its way to New York's JFK airport before it was diverted to Stewart Airport in Orange County.
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The Port Authority attributed the delays to a backlog of flights, hundreds of which were cancelled ahead of the storm.
Singapore Airlines was working to arrange ground transportation to NY for the passengers, a spokesman said. "Is anyone there?", tweeted one passenger who had landed on a flight from Germany at 8 p.m.
According to air travel tracking service Flightradar 24, dozens of planes had the same issues after landing. One traveler even posted a video of a fellow passenger playing violin at their gate to pass the time.
The situation comes the same day an American Airlines flight had to return to the airport following takeoff after a mechanical failure.
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