Originally Posted by
LarryJ
Sometimes you can, but that requires that the adjacent sectors, and facilities, have the excess capacity to accept the rerouted traffic.
Yeah I had an ORD-PBI A319 flight two winters ago that when Jacksonville got closed off due to thunderstorms over the Georgia Florida border, our pilot and dispatcher got us rerouted flying almost due south over MSY and then over the gulf to get around the N/S ZJX flow restriction and a lengthy EDTC delay. Like you said that isn't going to be feasible for every flight.