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Old Mar 13, 2001 | 9:58 pm
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Ken hAAmer
 
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I also watched and enjoyed it, although I didn't learn anything from their "five pointers." But I was impressed enought with Midwest Express to promise myself a trip with them in the very near future.

I followed their website links to check out the flight trackers, and found an amazing FAA website. Given that Dateline was good enough to tell us about it, I'm posting the link to the Dateline site instead of the direct links.

Scroll down a little ways and look for the inset titled "Check your flight status" and click on the FAA link. You'll find up to the minute updated world wide airport advisories, which may include links to other interesting and useful sites, airports with ground delays, de-icing delays, closures, and other airport information. (For example, Seattle was experienceing weather delays until 55 minutes ago, there is a current volcanic ash warning for airports near Ecuador complete with links to 3-hourly satellite images, Kansas City is currently "experiencing Gate Hold and Taxi delays of less than 15 minutes in length," and so on.)

So the next time an agent in Baltimore tells you there is an ATC delay at ORD, you can double check for yourself.
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