Originally Posted by
Bear96
You might have a different source (that maybe the DL meteorologists used as well!), but I didn't see anything like that in the NWS ones or discussions I was monitoring. (Yes I am a weather geek.)
Here are relevant parts of the 4 PM (yesterday) discussion. By then they were saying travel is not recommended for today across the region. They were already noting the upward trend in freezing rain forecast in the 4 AM (yesterday) one:
The travel warning is for surface travel... and it goes along with the State of Emergency that the governor declared yesterday. I posted that weather discussion a page or so above yesterday. I-20 was the demarcation line where bad-ish was not-so-bad. The ATL airport is south of this. Additionally, 1-2" of snow isn't that big of a deal... meaning, yes, delays and some disruptions. But it doesn't mean the airport shuts the runways down for 3+ hours.
Finally, the forecast was to have midday travel snarled up with the freezing rain. This all arrived hours before originally forecast.
Right now you have almost 30 planes being deiced... that's 30 planeloads of people who get to where they need to be. Those folks would be stranded somewhere if they just canceled everything across the board. I think DL has an obligation to try to make it work where they can. As opposed to Frontier, which canceled everything for the day and now those pax are out of luck.