When it rains, AA shuts down. Are the other majors as bad?
Aug 17, 2021, 5:05 pm
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When it rains, AA shuts down. Are the other majors as bad?
AA canceled a huge slew of flights today from DFW and I was a victim of one of them (dfw-phx then dfw-sna). It rained today. Yep rained. AA shuts down. WHY???
Aug 17, 2021, 5:10 pm
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No storms just rain and not even heavy rain. Like a Seattle steady type. Rains? No plane for you. Canceled across the board. Meeting canceled, drove home.
Aug 17, 2021, 5:11 pm
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AA's had major issues recently when storms have popped up in DFW and stranded crew/planes elsewhere. Suspect these were pre-emptive cancellations to try and avoid that sort of fiasco assuming more significant thunderstorms than the ones that actually popped up in DFW.
Aug 17, 2021, 5:12 pm
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In my experience AA is significantly worse than UA and DL when it comes to restoring operations and having spares availability at its hubs, particularly DFW. I've seen a relatively minor 30 minute afternoon storm in DFW cripple the entire AA domestic network for 36+ hours. The other legacy carriers seem to have a better capacity to recover operations, even though some of their hubs are much more susceptible to weather than DFW (such as MSP and DEN). Just my personal experience of 15+ years of heavy travel on AA, UA, and DL.
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Aug 17, 2021, 5:47 pm
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Aug 17, 2021, 6:12 pm
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Current FAA status at DFW:
Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, Dallas-Ft Worth, TX (DFW) is currently experiencing delays averaging 4 hours and 49 minutes.
Sounds like a bit more than just light rain today. Word is there were also a number of diversions of flights headed to DFW today (50+ diverted)
Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, Dallas-Ft Worth, TX (DFW) is currently experiencing delays averaging 4 hours and 49 minutes.
Sounds like a bit more than just light rain today. Word is there were also a number of diversions of flights headed to DFW today (50+ diverted)
Aug 17, 2021, 6:19 pm
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Blame them
Aug 17, 2021, 6:20 pm
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All flights to IAH were also canceled this evening. 4800 was about to board when the pilot came off the AC and told the GA to hold off with boarding. Shortly after that they announced that the flight was canceled.
Aug 17, 2021, 6:20 pm
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Aug 17, 2021, 7:11 pm
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this is 2021 not 1911. Can an airline not fly its planes in the rain?
Aug 17, 2021, 7:28 pm
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Aug 17, 2021, 7:28 pm
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