Philadelphia airport chaos: Hundreds of flights disrupted, luggage piles up at PHL

Hundreds of flights remain delayed or canceled at Philadelphia International Airport as mounds of unclaimed luggage pile up at ticket counters following Friday’s nationwide FAA ground stop. Stranded passengers—including a Milwaukee traveler who slept on airport chairs during a 24-hour ordeal—face hours-long waits for missing bags while airlines scramble to reposition crews and planes. The FAA apologized for the maintenance-related outage and expects normal operations to resume by tomorrow night, even as the fallout forces schedule changes for college football teams and NFL officials nationwide.