{"id":98881182,"date":"2011-03-25T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/lingering-delays-at-miami-international-airport-following-massive-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T11:16:48","slug":"lingering-delays-at-miami-international-airport-following-massive-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/lingering-delays-at-miami-international-airport-following-massive-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingering Delays at Miami International Airport Following Massive Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delays and cancellations lingered into Friday at Miami International Airport after an early morning fuel fire on Thursday wreaked havoc on air traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The massive blaze and ensuing fuel shortage led to the cancellation of nearly 180 flights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The disruption left thousands of tourists stranded as Miami heads into its peak tourist season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines, which operates nearly 70 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/from-miami-mia-florida-deals\" target=\"_blank\">flights out of MIA<\/a>, was the carrier hit hardest by delays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The effects of the disruption in traffic rippled worldwide; Miami is the second-busiest airport in the US when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/international\">international flights<\/a>. The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/03\/23\/2133043\/fuel-fire-disrupts-busy-tourist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Miami Herald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delays and cancellations lingered into Friday at Miami International Airport after an early morning fuel fire on Thursday wreaked havoc on air traffic. &nbsp; The massive blaze and ensuing fuel shortage led to the cancellation of nearly 180 flights. &nbsp; The disruption left thousands of tourists stranded as Miami heads into its peak tourist season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98902077,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881182\/revisions\/98902077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}