PJIA Closed Due to Bomb Threat - now reopened

I can find only one online reference to this. See:

http://www.smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-ma...her-notice.html

edited for the current information

The source for the above article is the St Maarten Goverment. http://www.sintmaartengov.org/PressRelea...rt-until-furthe

It looks like one AA flight has diverted to SJU, while other inbound flights are still in the air.

I just saw the news in The Daily Herald newspaper. Nothing new yet.

A small plane just flew over the beach at Simpson Bay Resort.

Just looked at flight status for arrivals. Most US airlines are showing delaysd at this point in time. Air France is showing as scheduled, but that is to be expected as they were already in the air. A couple show as diverted, but that was before now.

Just reopened.

Ok thanks, it is going to be busy this afternoon!!! Many arrivals and departures, this is not going to be fun.

It's open again..

Just changed the title of the initial post, so that everybody know the current situation.

Thanks, Eric.

The AA flight from CLT which was diverted to SJU now appears to be en route to SXM with an expected arrival time of 2:58PM.

Saw I THINK a couple of flights diverted, the others were in transit, so outside of going around in circles they should be fine. But it will be a mess as you do not have the spacing between arrivals and exits. So glad I am not at the airport today. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />

St Maarten Government press release on the reopening of PJIA:

http://www.sintmaartengov.org/PressRelea...d%E2%80%8F.aspx

Wasn't there a bomb threat last year involving a KLM aircraft?

Same crap happened last time. They need to try trace the number and arrest the person.

Daily Herald story

I hope they can find who did this.

Unfortunately, anyone who plans on doing these crimes, has enough forethought to purchase a $20.00 "throw away" phone that are for sale all over now. They make the purchase with no record of sale (they pay cash), and walk out of the store with a phone that they throw away after using the allotted minutes.
Virtually impossible to track any of the phone calls or who made them.

Correct and really rough.

We were there! Checked in just before noon. Sat down to get a burger @ BK. Alarms went off and back out the door. 2 hours later we were back inside. What a rush to get everyone thru security and back on track. Our 2:50 pm flight on AA actually boarded at 3:20 or so and left 20 minutes later.

Glad it didn't make you too awfully late..

Details may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOVMD77ZooA

do u guys have any idea how frustrating it was to be in a holding pattern with possible didnt version to antigua and not b able to reach u guys to fix nd out shat was going on? i believe we were one of tbe girdt planes lowed to land.