Seated on a sidewalk with his back propped against a concrete pillar, Spirit Airlines passenger Rick Johnson of Indianapolis imbibed from a bottle of water and recounted his day after finishing a Caribbean cruise with his wife, son, and a family friend.

“I don’t know if we’re going to make a connecting flight to Indy,” he said early Monday afternoon outside Spirit’s Terminal 4 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

He said their return flight home had been booked for 7 in the morning as a nonstop to Indiana. But they were rerouted through Newark aboard a flight originally scheduled for 4 p.m., then for 6:05, and then 6:35 p.m.

“I’m just ready to go home,” Johnson said. “I’m ready to go home.”

Similar stories emerged from the airport’s four terminals Monday as the effects t

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