Originally Posted by
andrewk829
I may not be as seasoned as some fliers here, but I have logged 1,000,000 miles of air travel in my life if all airlines are combined, so I think I am entitled to say this was just bad, maybe the worst I have ever experienced. 6 hours on the plane and all we did was two taxis around the airport.
When you've flown that much, you're gonna have an experience or two like this. They are never fun, but they make for fun travel 'war stories' after the fact.
Originally Posted by
andrewk829
6:10 PM: Reached the end of the runway but departures out of JFK were halted due to thunderstorms in the area (though a look at the radar showed just one cell at most a few miles in diameter over Long Island Sound as the only significant weather in the entire NY-NJ-CT area, but that's not the topic of this post and I'll defer to the expertise of people who know about weather and aircraft safety)
With the NYC (and broader northeast) air traffic congestion, a group of storms over Pennsylvania and Maryland can mess up NYC air traffic for weather reasons, even while it's sunny in and around NYC. It can be maddening, yes, but it's not uncommon. The vagaries of NYC ATC.