Nationwide ground stop: Smaller airports, aircraft impacted as well

Talked to earlier, Brett is in Waukesha County with a look at what's happening out there. We heard that you guys were seeing some planes on the runway, just kind of waiting for what's next. Yeah, it's just wait and see out here, Ashley. Of course, the Waukesha County airport is much smaller than Mitchell, for example. But even as we look out the window here from the main terminal, you can see there are still planes that are on the runway. They are waiting for word. We just spoke with the airport director, Kurt Stanich, just a little while ago. And he told us that, you know, even at his level, they are still waiting to hear from the FAA as to what is the next step here. We spoke with a couple of pilots, one that was on his way out of state to visit his son for the weekend at college, you know, and now. Those plans are obviously in flux. We even talked with a pilot who led a flight school who said he got out as soon as he heard the word, landed his plane, and just decided to pack up for the day and told the students that there would be no more classes today because obviously the scene is very similar pretty much every airport that you're looking at now Because there are no flights that are going in. in or out again people being patient here the crowd actually thinning uh... quite a bit uh... just over the last half hour people kind of thrown in the towel and saying you know what we're just gonna go home a lot of the folks that you're seeing here actually live in waukesha county and they were headed uh... out of state and so they've just decided uh... that you know it's it's just not worth it uh... to wait around anymore uh... but we did hear from kurt the airport director saying that He is aware that there were other flights that were not meant to land here in Waukesha that ended up coming here because of all the chaos with the FAA. That was going to be my next question. Thank you for your question. You know, we've seen this in the past where sometimes something will happen at a specific airport and they will divert them to different airports. I'm almost wondering that with O'Hare. I mean, they only got so much room on the tarmac. At some point, they're going to have to look for more space. And I'm wondering if those planes will end up in other places. And you're saying you're seeing that? I mean, it's a small airport in Waukesha, and those people may be trying to avoid the big airports right now. Yeah, well, with smaller aircraft, Ben, obviously, you know, there are... Certain parameters that they have to deal with just in terms of the size of the runway and the amount of aircrafts that they can actually take here at the airport. There's only two runways at Wrights Field here. And so, obviously, you know, they need to make sure that they can accommodate those flights if they do land here. But at the moment, we have not seen any planes even in the sky out here at the Waukesha County Airport. So, again, it's just kind of wait and see. We talked to some folks that say yeah it is, it's almost eerie especially for this airport now again not nearly as busy as Mitchell but there are still hundreds of flights arrivals and departures that take place here each and every day and so it is kind of an interesting eerie sight to not see any activity here at all. All right Brett we will continue to check in with you thank you for that and we're going to go.