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Jul 25, 2018, 3:01 pm

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Originally Posted by WiscAZ

This is certainly something worth bringing up for consideration when making plans with a few of my personal thoughts in mind:

- I'd really only be considered during mid-July to end of August. It can extend before or after those dates.
- It really only affects night flights after 5:00
- Most of the monsoons won't last longer than an hour

Now, obviously there are exceptions to these points but I'm pretty confident in those claims. I will say that I take an international trip out of LAX every August and always book 4-5 hours layover just to be on the safe side.

Yes good rules of thumb my AZ neighbor haha. I have had a very late evening monsoon send me from LAX to LAS (refuel) back to PHX.... total time of travel: 5 hours. Now I always try to takeoff/land before 3pm.

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