Originally Posted by vachataboon
CO has a plan to be almost 100% operational within 24 hours after an emergency. I've seen this work after triopical storm Allison a few years ago and they were very organized and appeared to meet their goals.
I flew via IAH a few years ago after a tropical storm hit the area with a TPA-IAH-SDF routing. I don't recall what tropical storm it was, but CO did a great job handling things.
Flight from TPA-IAH was on a 735 and it was a bit choppy as we went through a few of the bands around Louisiana. When we landed it had officially been downgraded to be a tropical depression. The IAH-SDF flight on ExpressJet departed on-time and was a smooth flight, with the pilot joking about the "lovely tropical day here in Houston".
While this was a much smaller storm, I was a bit concerned that morning about whether the TPA-IAH flight would go or not.
This storm, Rita, on the other hand, appears to be a monster compared to the one I dealt with via IAH a few years ago (I'm thinking perhaps 4 years ago).
SDF_Traveler