Originally Posted by gsupstate
In a similar vein, how does snow affect hub operations up North? I mean, there are so many northern hubs - DTW, CLE, EWR, ORD, MSP just to name a few. How much snow does it take to really clog the system up?
I'm connecting at EWR on 12/21/05, and would like to think only an unusually bad storm would seriously affect schedules.... Right? Wrong?
I've found EWR is generally pretty good unless there's a big blizzard out there. I just flew EWR-SEA last night, as the snow storm was working its way up the east coast, and things were still fairly normal when we took off at 6 PMish. Between BOS and EWR (the two northeastern airports I mostly use), I'd say they do a pretty good job of dealing with snow. Obviously, there are delays when you're flying in lots of snow, but they deal pretty well with them. Certainly better than SEA, which essentially shuts down if it needs to de-ice planes or try to snowplow the runways.