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Old Jul 29, 2023 | 2:51 pm
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Originally Posted by ty97
I am the first person to explain to people that weather doesn't have to be at/near an airport to cause ATC delays. Weather over the routes to/from the airport causes ATC delays too.

However, I can't help but feel that something at the FAA is severely broken right now.


Exactly. I've been a reasonably frequent flyer for decades, and I've never seen anything like last night's debacle at LGA, even during blizzards and thunderstorms. In fact, in May I took off from ORD with lightning going off in the distance.

Something is broken somewhere, clearly.
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