Originally Posted by
Mr. S
We flew #1540 from Kansas City to New York (Lga) yesterday and had to make an unexpected and annoying fuel stop in Islip. The stated reason was that due to congestion and the number of planes in front of us, that we didn’t have enough fuel to circle.
Are you kidding me? How does a 737 run out of fuel on an 1,100 mile flight? Who could have anticipated congestion flying into New York?
The weather was fine and the faa website said Lga operations were normal “with delays of under 15 minutes”. Our flight was originally scheduled to land at 745 pm and eventually arrived at 910, so it wasn’t the worst delay in terms of time. But it was frustrating and very disruptive for a school night.
How is Southwest about giving compensation in these situations?
nope……this is one of those unexpected delays like weather you don’t get comp for.
Nyc is a busy airspace.
they had the standard fuel amount for the load and distance when they took off snd their destination. LGA has shorter runways. Excess Fuel adds weight and stopping distance on landing.
I believe there is an extra tropical storm out in the Atlantic which also stirred up much stronger head winds when circling. Strong headwinds also eats fuel use.
LGA is also very busy with slot priorities. I don’t know how much thus played into it without knowing how early/ late the flight or other flights were when entering LGA ATZc