CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Saturday’s weather is packing a punch to travelers and planes in and out of Charlotte Douglas.
At one point during the rapid snow fall a “ground stop” was in place for four hours due to the snow.
Officials with U.S. Airways said the ground stop meant no planes in or out of the airport.
U.S. Airways tells NBC Charlotte the ground stop put them in recovery mode once the weather-induced ground stop ended.
Officials said they were scrambling to get passengers in and out as soon as possible.
A site that tracks flights live, flightaware.com, displayed 45 flights out of Charlotte were canceled. Those cancellations were among the top in the country.
Delays and cancellations were moderate around 4 p.m. with departure delays averaging 37 minutes and arrival delays averaging 29 minutes.
Michelle Devine Giese got a double whammy from Charlotte’s snow flurries.
According to Giese, there was a mechanical problem leaving Milwaukee to Charlotte which required a different plane followed by sitting in Milwaukee for an hour and a half because of the winter conditions there.
"They said that the airport down here was not taking any more flights, so we had to wait on the plane for about an hour, hour and a half, until we could take off,” explained Giese.
“When we landed here, we missed all of our connections and our secondary connections and our alternative connections and we had to wait in line here an hour and a half to talk to customer service to get re-booked on a flight for tomorrow," she said.
Other passengers who didn’t have it so bad summed it up by saying “that's just what happens, and better safe than sorry when it comes to winter weather.”
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