Did Hurricane Gustav force a New Orleans airport to close?”
On the last flight into New Orleans before Gustav by David Hammer, The Times-Picayune Sunday August 31, 2008, 3:14 PM Kathy Anderson / The Times-Picayune Yusef Ozen, 11, and his brother Mehmet Ozen, 14, sleep on the floor of the Louis Armstrong International airport in New Orleans. The Ozen family had to end their vacation in Lafayette, Louisiana early because of the pending threat of Hurricane Gustav.Hurricane Gustav. The airport will close at 6pm Sunday, August 31.Arriving in the eerie calm before Hurricane Gustav hits, the passengers on the last commercial flight into New Orleans knew they would be among the last to evacuate the city. From the air, they saw scarcely any traffic on Interstate 10 out of the city and a convoy of seven New Orleans city buses heading with evacuees over the Bonnet Carre Spillway. As they entered the terminal at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, the 37 passengers found even fewer people waiting for the last Delta Airlines flight out of tow
