EWR Doom & Gloom Thread for the [11/12-Jan-2011] Snowstorm
Jan 8, 2011, 6:48 pm
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I'm inbound on 98 on the 11th 
I would like to know Weathboy's opinion if I will get into EWR at 1:45 PM. He is an expert in local micro-forcasts.
Of course, it does not look good for my connection on to TPA at 6 PM.
I would like to know Weathboy's opinion if I will get into EWR at 1:45 PM. He is an expert in local micro-forcasts.
Of course, it does not look good for my connection on to TPA at 6 PM.
Last edited by Vulcan; Jan 8, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Jan 8, 2011, 6:56 pm
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I'm waiting for UA & CO to post weather waivers for IAD/NYC Area...
Jan 8, 2011, 7:06 pm
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Jan 8, 2011, 7:25 pm
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Jan 8, 2011, 8:19 pm
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Just in the case we do make it into EWR, I doubt that the 6:05PM to TPA will go, so I went ahead and booked (on separate reservations, 2 nights at the Sheraton at 4,000 SPG points each. If we don't make it EWR, my wife will monitor and cancel these.
One can't plan too much in advance.
I am currently at the WGS in BKK and heading back over to HKG tomorrow afternoon to overnight at the W (C&P), then early to the airport on the 11th.
Jan 8, 2011, 8:43 pm
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No contrarians yet? I vote for a light dusting. Your flight will be the only one cancelled though.
Jan 8, 2011, 11:59 pm
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I think you'd get into EWR for 1:45p but that 6pm is toast. I think with the practice of the Boxing Day Blizzard and probably lots of pre-emptive cancellations (like for yesterday's snow), operations will resume fine on Thursday. Wednesday is recovery & dig-out day... and will also feature some traffic-slowing stiff northwest winds.
I would guess CO puts up winter weather waivers for Tuesday/Wednesday on Sunday.
Jan 9, 2011, 12:04 am
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Other Hubs
On a related note, some other carrier hubs are going to be impacted with crippling snow/ice: DFW and ATL will have very heavy (by their local standards) wintry accumulations, which will impact AA and DL obviously. Even if EWR wasn't going to be impacted, I'd imagine significant disruptions on other carriers (especially DL's ATL hub) will be felt on CO with re-accommodated passenger traffic and re-routed folks. So the pain with Old Man Winter will be shared by the big carriers this week.
Jan 9, 2011, 12:37 am
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So I guess the fact that I'm scheduled for ISP-PHL-DFW on Tuesday could be bad 
Jan 9, 2011, 1:31 am
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On a related note, some other carrier hubs are going to be impacted with crippling snow/ice: DFW and ATL will have very heavy (by their local standards) wintry accumulations, which will impact AA and DL obviously. Even if EWR wasn't going to be impacted, I'd imagine significant disruptions on other carriers (especially DL's ATL hub) will be felt on CO with re-accommodated passenger traffic and re-routed folks. So the pain with Old Man Winter will be shared by the big carriers this week.
Jan 9, 2011, 3:07 am
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I'm on CO 50 on the 11th - the "Direct FLight" from FRA-CLE that happens to stop in EWR and swap terminals and aircraft to one half its size.
Do you suppose this day they would just go ahead and "directly" fly to CLE as the flight is marketed?! That would make me
Do you suppose this day they would just go ahead and "directly" fly to CLE as the flight is marketed?! That would make me
Jan 9, 2011, 3:09 am
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I just sent a pm to mr xyzzy as he appears to be here in hkg too
OT but I bought some of the Eqms offered for this trip
Jan 9, 2011, 3:55 am
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