Originally Posted by
sts603
AA has canceled its entire ORD-PHL and ORD-LGA schedule from early afternoon through the end of the day due to weather that is largely between the east coast and Chicago, not even impacting the airports. The competitors on those routes: UA, DL, and US haven't canceled anything. Sure there are bad storms and I'm sure some competitor flights will also not make it. But seems like AA was overly eager to just scrub everything?
I'm sure that AA has very significant models (and programs) that describe the impacts and do so to lessen the impact on travelers (and more specifically its bottom line).
I'd doubt there is just some monkey banging away at a keyboard arbitrarily canceling flights, as some might think.