JetBlue evacuates NY JFK terminal

[Midnight Mike]

Sounds like another bomb scare

September 22, 2008

NEW YORK

JetBlue has evacuated its terminal at Kennedy Airport after finding a suspicious package.

JetBlue spokeswoman Alison Eshelman says the terminal was emptied out around 7:50 a.m. Monday.

She says "we're still evaluating" the situation. The package was found in a luggage.

She could not say how many people were in the terminal at the time, but says the morning is a "slower time period" for the airline.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ ... rint.story

[moose135]

Now reopened:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ ... 8438.story

NEW YORK (AP) _ JetBlue has reopened its terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport following a brief evacuation due to a suspicious package.

JetBlue spokeswoman Alison Eshelman says passengers returned inside Terminal 6 at 8:15 a.m. Monday.

She says the package turned out to be WWII replica paper weights that resembled grenades. Scanners spotted them in a passenger's luggage, and the terminal was emptied around 7:50 a.m.

[Matt Molnar]

Morons like this should automatically be added to the TSA blacklist. That is if they're not already.

Did this affect the T5 festivities at all? I would imagine a good number of jetBlue folks at the event had some scurrying to do to straighten this out.

[h2opunk1822]

no.. just delayed them a little bit.. the new terminal is gorgeous.. plus if you get the chance.. go to the top of the new parking structure.. spotters paradise!!.. reminds me of the old delta lot!