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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 4:17 pm
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wb8iny
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Palm Coast, FL (DAB) USA
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Originally Posted by weolmd
And what happens when there is a WX or MX?
That's an easy one, the whole sequence for that plane gets really messed up for that day...
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From Dispatch article:
In early August, for example, a Skybus plane that was to make the trip to Oakland, Calif., was grounded for hours for a maintenance check. To get the Oakland-bound passengers to their destination, after cooling their heels for about five hours in the airport, Skybus had to pull another of its five planes and cancel four later flights in and out of other cities.

"If we have to cancel a flight, we can't just cancel one. We have to cancel two, one out and one back," Quillen said. "When we do have to take a cancellation, we face that and keep on going."
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If it's weather, you are going to get delayed. If mechanical, hope for the best. You probably stand a better chance of getting out if you are at CMH, else you wait it out...

The real test will come this winter, although CMH does a pretty good job of keeping the field open. Of course, you will still have to walk to the plane in the blowing snow!
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