Memorial plans affected by the headstrasse

After almost eight hours of closure due to a crash on Friday morning, San Luis Obispo County Airport opened travelers around 5 p.m. that the delays had enormous impact on their weekend plans for the memorial day.

“I'm actually traveling to go to the end of my cousin,” said Diane Garcia, who comes from Cambria, and I will miss it. “

“I just want to return to see my wife,” said Richard Manz, who flew to San Diego to meet his wife for her 28th wedding anniversary.

Others who live in the area went home to wait for the closure.

“We just monitored our phone,” said Annie Taylor, a mother who took her little son on his first aircraft trip. “Fortunately for him, he had to get an additional napkish time, so hopefully we are calm and ready to go.”

“We live in Santa Maria, so we just went home and did a few things,” said Eric Macksoud, a resident of Santa Maria. “Then we go out here on the way back, it was delayed again.”

The flights were delayed a few times on this busy Memorial Day weekend, but after a long waiting time, the first flight on Friday evening at 5:24 a.m. from SLO County Airport – 5 hours after his initially planned time.

“We missed our connecting flight,” said Andrea Sanchez, a traveler from San Luis Obispo.

Hilary Anderson was waiting for her son, of whom she says he was gone for two years on a mission trip in Madagascar.

“He left the reunion in Madagascar yesterday morning, flew to Paris and then flew to San Francisco and then to here,” said Anderson. “So, about 30 hours.”

The people who were waiting for flights were not the only ones at the airport. A volunteer and their therapy dog ​​came to calm the leaflets while waiting.

“They were happy to have the dog,” said Lanie Demicco, a volunteer at SBPAWs. “I think if I would bring a goldfish bowl and they were happy, you know a distraction. But they were really good.”