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Old Aug 24, 2005 | 8:45 pm
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Originally Posted by AlanLivingston
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?
Just my 2 cents... I don't think they would skip TPE-KIX and fly directly TPE-DTW. There are many people that actually fly the TPE-KIX segment and other that fly the KIX-DTW segment.

Also, about a month ago, there was a serious typhoon in TPE and NW cancelled flight NW 70 (I think the whole airport was closed). Not sure what happened to the KIX-DTW portion.
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