Originally Posted by AlanLivingston
I've booked NW70, TPE-KIX-DTW, for this thursday. Typhoon Mawar has scheduled it's visit for Japan to occur right over Osaka at about the same time.
Does anyone have any experience with how NW would handle this? I called NW and they said if a typhoon would affect any portion of the flight, they would probably cancel the entire flight. It would make more sense to me to cancel the stop at KIX and fly TPE-DTW direct. I'd think they'd need the aircraft in TPE for the next flight.
Of course, I don't know how they accomodate those KIX-DTW passengers and I'm probably not thinking of a lot of other details as well.
Has anyone had this happen on this flight or a similar situation that can comment?
Unless it's a super strong Typhoon, I doubt Northwest would cancel the flight. I've flown flights out of Tokyo Narita and had flight fly as scheduled even with the Typhoon impacting Tokyo. At the time of my departure, the rain was light despite the high winds. It was probably near category 1 but was not a direct hit.
If there is any impact, I think it would only be impacted by flight delay or even a landing in Tokyo Narita or Nagoya instead. It's passengers possibly could be transferred in Tokyo but I would think that flight load is fairly full this time around so it would eventually make its way to KIX with its passengers. I highly doubt that it would make the TPE-DTW trip without making the stop in KIX. TPE-KIX-DTW flight will have significant amount of passengers that will be unloading/boarding in KIX.
Jiburi