JoAnn Jenny, a Pittsburgh International spokeswoman, said the airport learned at 3:07 a.m. that the plane had landed and was waiting at gate D82 without any ground crew to handle it. The airport apparently was notified by a cleaner that the jet was there.
The airport, she said, contacted the Delta station manager and got permission to use its own employees to connect the jetway and remove the passengers.
Asked if Delta employees left for the night after learning that the flight had been canceled, airline spokesman Morgan Durrant said it’s “too soon to say definitively but that’s one possibility at play.”
