DTWflyer

Anyone else get caught in the DFW deicing meltdown today? With the wet heavy snow that hit northern TX, the airport was challenging to deal with. My original DFW-DTW was cancelled, got rebooked on DFW-MSP-DTW, but switched to DFW-ATL-DTW (which was the right choice since the DFW-MSP ended up being cancelled after all).

However, DL was completely unprepared to deice aircraft. The inbound flights that weren't cancelled were generally arriving within 30 minutes of the scheduled arrivals.

Flights were pushing off the gate usually within 30 minutes of the scheduled time, however it was taking 2-3 hours to get deiced! This is DL's own deicing crew too. I was shocked to see how unorganized their DFW ops were today. The deicing itself only took about 10 minutes once they started working on the aircraft, but somehow we had to wait almost 3 hours just for them to even get to us. Supposedly, they completely ran out of deicing fluid by late afternoon.

Interestingly, AA and Eagle was using Type IV, while DL was just using Type I to clear the aircraft of the wet snow accumulation.

DTW:
7228 (RON) - 2 hours late
5668 (RON) - 4 hours late
3518 - cancelled
3470 - left gate 30 minutes late, sat waiting to be deiced for 2+ hours, then returned to gate and cancelled
5682 - cancelled

CVG:
6460 (RON) - 1.5 hours late
6607 - cancelled
6346 - 4.5 hours late

MEM:
3926 (RON) - cancelled
3526 - cancelled
3486 - 3.5 hours late
4424 - cancelled

SLC:
4539 (RON) - 2.5 hours late
4687 - cancelled
4445 - cancelled
4783 - cancelled

MSP:
3503 (RON) - 30 minutes late
5772 - 2 hours late
3549 - 1.5 hours late
5677 - 9 hours late
7392 - left gate 30 minutes late, sat on taxiway waiting to deice for 2 hours, then returned to gate and cancelled
3462 - 4 hours late

JFK:
6473 - 3 hours late

ATL:
1912 (RON) - 20 minutes late
1914 (RON) - 1.5 hours late
1916 - 2.5 hours late
2014 - 1.5 hours late
1920 - canceled
66 - 6 hours late
1924 - 4 hours late
1084 - 2.5 hours late
1926 - 3 hours late
1928 - cancelled
1930 - cancelled