US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - I hate the summer in PHL

Summer has started early in PHL this year. The last 2 Sundays I have sat on the runway for 1 hr and 1 1/2 hours with engines off while we waited out the storms. Last Friday night was also a lot of "fun" with the weather. I am going back to PHL tonight and it looks like it will be another long night.

Is it winter yet? :rolleyes:

Summer will be an even bigger treat at PHL, thanks to the WN "amateur hour" crowds.

"How many Hefty Cinch-sacks can we check?" :D

I must have beat the storms out of there yesterday. I was on the 1545 PHL-SFO flight (VDB ticket from a DC weekend). What time were the storms that delayed you yesterday?

I must have beat the storms out of there yesterday. I was on the 1545 PHL-SFO flight (VDB ticket from a DC weekend). What time were the storms that delayed you yesterday?

They started about 8:30 pm and shut down the airport.

DCA, EWR, LGA, JFK, IAD, and *ALL* the Florida airports deal with this, too. I don't think we should single out PHL due to forces of nature.

Agreed...I just hate the afternoon flights in the summer. The storms come in and everything goes to h***. With the congestion that already exists in PHL and many of use go thru it often, it just is a royal pain and effects more of us. Nobody's fault, but nonetheless a pain.

DCA, EWR, LGA, JFK, IAD, and *ALL* the Florida airports deal with this, too. I don't think we should single out PHL due to forces of nature.

DCA is slot limited to begin with, which helps with traffic management. LGA has it's problems, often like PHL, as does EWR to an extent.

IIRC, JFK and IAD and many of the Florida airports take weather, but unlike PHL have runways that can permit mutiple simultaneous Cat II and Cat III approaches. You can't do that in PHL, and PRM has not seemed to have been a panacea to fix the problem.

Without a new runway spaced properly, you can't turn PHL into an operationally efficient hub.