US: Portions of Phoenix airport reopen after police activity

Portions of Terminal 4 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport were reopened Sunday morning after a multi-hour closure, prompted by a suspicious abandoned rental car, snarled air traffic and led to the cancellation of numerous flights. The airport was completely open at about 11:15 a.m. local time after Phoenix police determined the car was not a threat. Phoenix police officers working at the airport spotted the unattended rental car on the curb line of the upper deck of Terminal 4 at about 7 a.m. The bomb squad was then called out to determine whether the car was actually a threat. Police had yet to identify the owner of the car. The east side of the terminal, before the security checkpoints, had been evacuated for at least three hours Sunday morning. Three of the four security checkpoints were closed, and the PHX Sky Train was not dropping off passengers at Terminal 4. Flight-tracking web site FlightAware showed hundreds of flights had been delayed Sunday, either in leaving or in arriving at Sky Harbor. The site showed nearly 30 cancelled flights, mostly on Southwest Airlines.<br/>