Brenna Neghaiwi
Brenna Neghaiwi
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EVERY DAY IS ACTUALLY WEEKEND
Even manic Mondays like today. After three semesters, 44(ish) print issues and a lot of blood/sweat/gchats, WEEKEND is lifting off its papered legs and reaching with fledgling wings to new heights: the Internet.
My, those departure gate chairs sure look comfy...
Staff photographer Brenna Neghaiwi has been stranded in JFK Airport since Saturday afternoon. We imagine lots of other Yalies are in the same boat. Below, through photography and written account, Brenna documents her suffering. After eight hours on the plane from JFK to Amsterdam Schiphol, I finally disembark – in JFK. Eight hours waiting on the ground in a plane is indeed a very long time, especially squished between two large men cramping my style and without any real food (the masterminds of airline regulations know that serving warm meals while standing perfectly still is a safety hazard). Only after we had been sitting around for about three hours did it occur to our gods of air transport to cancel the flight in blizzard-like weather conditions. Fate, of course, would not let us off so easily after our foolish ways: by the time the airport reached this decision, it was no longer possible to pull back into our gate, and in the ensuing five hours a whole host of setbacks presented themselves: there were no free gates initially, then a plane in front of us broke down, then the available gates were not equipped for our sort of plane, and, lastly, as we stood 40 meters away from the glorious portal to the vast indoor world, the airport staff wasn’t able to clear that last bit of ground. At 2:30 a.m., we finally walked through the (literally) snow-filled gateway to end up where we started. Read more after the jump.