BWI airport suffers temporary power outage, officials say

Passengers and would-be passengers complained on social media about conditions.

The “entire airport has lost power: no lighting or AC and it is sweltering,” read one message.

Another said “I see the plane I’m supposed to get on right outside the window, but with no power to get the gangway to it to unload.”

A third described being on an airplane that was “stuck on the tarmac for an hour or so now.”

It was not clear what caused the loss of power. A communications manager for BGE, the main public utility serving the area of the airport, said the company “did not register an outage on its equipment prior to, during, or after the outage at BWI.”