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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 4:40 pm
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cordelli
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It's a small airport, they sent 23 flights there on diversions pretty much all at once.

In a snow storm

With the power coming on and going off, so they could not get the jetways to work. Since the storm, through to now Windsor Locks has 100% (every single customer) without electricity. Yet they kept sending planes there.

They did not have the people to escort the people off the planes during the snow storm, they did not have customs to get the people off the CDG JFK flight off the plane (though I still don't get why they can't put them in a room instead of leaving them on the plane)

There's nothing wrong with Bradley on a day to day operation. It's when the FAA starts sending planes there without any consideration as to the conditions on the ground and the airport operations.

Really what on earth were they thinking, clearing a flight from Boston to Newark to take off only to have them divert to Hartford?
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