coairtul

We have a 12:00 noon briefing after that I will give you the low down..

sbm12

I cannot imagine that the cost of flying all those flights to DFW or AUS and then leaving pax there would be less than that of canceling all the flights. It seems that the vast majority of folks who are not heading to IAH and were just using it for connections are being absorbed by EWR/CLE or other alternate plans. Plus CO would need enough people willing to fly to the alternate airport rather than just wait a few days. Otherwise the flight would lose money on account of not having a particularly high load factor.

photog72

To those of you who have to drive on Houston roads, please consider intersections with no traffic lights as a 4 way stop. I don't know what the law is in Texas. However, after surviving Andrew, I had to deal with people who didn't know that intersections with no working lights is a 4 way stop (according to Florida law). I would assume that Texas has a similar law. Plenty of people were killed and maimed after Andrew because of barreling into an intersection without stopping.

Case1096

What was the one EWR-IAH flight that operated today? Flight 1944. Looks like there were only a dozen people on the flight and they were all stand-by's.

Bonehead

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...2&postcount=19

TexasWes

Seems to be a lot of conflicting info out there. As of this morning 72 is still on schedule. We're coming into HNL on an inter-island this afternoon so I guess we'll find out for sure when we get there. I guess if we have so spend some extra time in HNL it won't be the end of the world

coairtul

The terminal Link is running to all Terminals but right now is in the testing phase due to some damage. We are planning on the big CO side to run a pretty full schedule tomorrow (Monday) on the COEX side I was told by a VERY reliable source that we will be looking at COEX to run about 50% tomorrow. As always there will be plenty of unforseen issues such as crews, Colgan and CHQ. There are also still alot of unknowns.

Leadership is all over the airport trying to moniter things and bring our operation back. Hub Vp- Price and hub Ops Director just ran into me and they all were very focused on getting this back on track..

More info as it comes. Be Safe.

Heres some photos not many due to I was kinda busy...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30454699@N07/?saved=1

primedude

Yeah, I'm curious to hear -- good luck getting back! Or getting stuck on Oahu, as the case may be. We figured if we might get stuck, we'd rather be stuck on Kauai a little longer before taking our chances at getting stuck at Honolulu as well.

Rtgdoc

Thank you [B]coairtul[B] for all the great updates! I'm supposed to be on 727/2884 BWI-DAL through IAH tomorrow and now have a backup reservation on AA to DFW, but would prefer to take CO. It sounds like things are going as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

Scott6067

While origination and destination passengers are important I would suspect that IAH is more about the connections and not having the planes moving within the system is a problem. By opening IAH it allows for the regular flow of planes and people around the CO system.

coachrowsey

Do any of you think the Mo. morn Clt-Iah 6A flt will be going ? Thanks

coairtul

Its operating but I would not call it a morning flight any longer... Showing delayed 7hrs.. Sub to change.

rkkwan

Starting to see some movements of empty aircrafts ferrying around. For example, they sent a 753 from LAS here to LAX last night, and another today. May be ready for redeyes out of LAX to IAH tonite.

sbm12

Yes and no. Right now CO seems to have "fixed" most of that so that planes that would normally be passing through IAH are not, for the most part. Some examples I can think of are ATL, ORD, MCO and TPA (though apparently one ORD flight today was canceled because of IAH). But the other cities seem to be doing OK without the need to cycle planes through. Sure, capacity is reduced, but the planes that should be flying mostly are.

For whatever reason I hadn't realized until about an hour ago that I might actually end up affected by this. I've got a MR planned for Tuesday/Wednesday, with the Tuesday flight on CO PHL-IAH-HNL. If I wasn't connecting on to a UA flight once I got to HNL I'd call CO and trade my seats for a later date since mine is completely discretionary. As it stands, however, I'd lose my UA ticket, too, and that wouldn't be so good for me.

coairtul

Due to we are trying to finish the cleaning process I think I have taken most of the photos that may be worth looking at.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30454699@N07/?saved=1