Originally Posted by
alggag
Anyway, my question to the group is concerning the wisdom of HOU-DEN + DEN-LAX in mid November. What are the odds of bad weather/snow around that time of year in DEN? I'm going to LAX on leisure and can take all day to get there if I want.
It can certainly snow in Denver in November, but your odds of a storm big enough to knock out DIA are fairly small. The airport is set up well to deal with weather and it takes a particularly nasty blizzard to shut that place down. (Many recall recall the famously-large blizzard that hit Denver around Christmas 2006.)
I wouldn't build a tight connection but I wouldn't avoid DEN because of the chance of weather. The main airport I avoid in the winter is ORD. (I never have any opportunity to avoid DTW or MSP, but I suppose if I were a Skyteam guy I'd avoid those too.)