Originally Posted by
cjmurray94
My boss is scheduled to fly DTW-ORD on NWA at 5 pm today, connecting with another airline to head to the West Coast.
While it's snowing outside my window, I see that the 9 am flight to DTW-ORD was canceled today. While nwa.com shows no delay for the 12:10 pm flight or the 1:35 to ORD, flightstats.com snows an estimated 20-30 minute delay for the 12:10, 1:35 and 5:08.
The snow is the DTW area is ending circa 11:30 AM and we didn't have *that* much, so by 5:30 things could be quasi normal. His worse problem may be getting to Metro on slushy roads.
Any experienced traveler knows to check in before they get to the airport to save time there.
Bob H