BANGOR – The city’s international airport provided refuge from the weekend storm for a half-dozen flights that were headed elsewhere but diverted to Bangor on Saturday.

While other airports were shutting down, Bangor International Airport stayed open, said airport director Rebecca Hupp. That benefited airlines looking for safe places to land and benefited BIA, which provided refueling, de-icing and other services to the planes. It also benefited the local economy through revenue for housing passengers and crews overnight.

Most of the flights came from Europe headed for New York or Boston. An American Airlines flight from Miami bound for New York was diverted to Logan Airport in Boston only to find it couldn’t land there. It headed to BIA, where it was cleared to land, said assistant airport director Tony Caruso.

That flight was one of two that remained overnight. The American Airlines 757 carried 187 passengers, who stayed overnight in Bangor before leaving shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday for their original destination, Caruso said. No information about the other flight, a North American Airlines flight from Shannon, Ireland, to New York, was available.

A seventh flight, from Atlanta to Germany, was also diverted Saturday, but Caruso said that was due to a medical emergency.