Originally Posted by
ani90
wow...in that case I am very lucky as my trip terminated in NYC so I was able to deplane. It seems most of these flights have still not made it to EWR and they ended in locations where deplaning may not be reasonable option for many. There were many with international connections on my flight but clearly they will be stranded in EWR tonight, whenever they get there. Also for those who deplaned at LGA, they said they would not be removing any checked baggage from the AC but fortunately I had no checked bags.
How come ours and not more aircraft diverted to LGA? It was windy there too but not so bad.
LGA has limited capacity, if there was more fuel in the tank, the flight would be sent further away. 1 - better chance of non-issue landing if they can get outside the weather bands; and 2 - plenty of capacity to be shared, and they can refuel wherever they end up.