Help needed for connecting flight at PHL (flight US759, ATH-PHL-LGA)
Aug 31, 2010, 4:00 am
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Here is the latest on Hurricane Earl. It appears that it may impact your arrival, however, there are too many variables involved to state with any certainty that your flight may be impacted. That said and IIRC, MIA, FLL and PBI did close when Cat 3 hurricanes approached, and with Earl currently at the high end of Cat 4 the same should hold true for any airport in Earl's path along the Atlantic coast.
Aug 31, 2010, 5:11 am
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Here is the latest on Hurricane Earl. It appears that it may impact your arrival, however, there are too many variables involved to state with any certainty that your flight may be impacted. That said and IIRC, MIA, FLL and PBI did close when Cat 3 hurricanes approached, and with Earl currently at the high end of Cat 4 the same should hold true for any airport in Earl's path along the Atlantic coast.
Sep 1, 2010, 4:17 am
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It really depends. Weather and especially hurricanes are not all that predictable. Sometimes your flight will be a little longer if the plane has to fly a route avoiding the storm; sometimes it may be delayed if there is no way to route around it (this happens with very large storms); sometimes there's no impact at all. You'll just have to see what happens. US will get you to your destination in the end.
Originally Posted by scharal
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Sep 2, 2010, 9:26 am
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Because of geodesics, flight paths do not go straight across the map but rather arc toward the north (in the northern hemisphere). Hence, your plane's normal route is likely to avoid the hurricane in flying to PHL.
