Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport feels pain of canceled Atlanta flights

Travelers walk to the security checkpoint while traveling through the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. AAA forecasts a 3.1% increase in holiday travel over last year with an estimated 103 million Americans traveling between Dec. 23rd and Jan. 1st.
Travelers walk to the security checkpoint while traveling through the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. AAA forecasts a 3.1% increase in holiday travel over last year with an estimated 103 million Americans traveling between Dec. 23rd and Jan. 1st.

A pair of early morning flights from Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport to Atlanta have been canceled today in the wake of an electrical fire that blacked out Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Sunday.

Also, a pair of other departures from Chattanooga to Atlanta have been delayed so far today, according to Lovell Field.

While power was restored at the nation's busiest airport after the Sunday blackout stranded thousands of passengers and grounded at least 1,500 flights, normal service is still a few days away, officials said.

A "switch failure" sparked a fire that knocked out power at the Atlanta airport, Paul Bowers, CEO of Georgia Power, which provides electricity to the airport, said today on "Good Morning America."

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