paul21

Sorry if anyone mentioned this, but why does the FAA show all green down the east coast? For all intents and purposes JFK and BOS are closed.

http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp

I guess "the airport is technically not closed, but there are 0 flights, so technically 0 delays" is the logic at play here.

MSPeconomist

Somebody goofed.

BTW, CNN is claiming that a Spirit flight is supposed to land in NYC about now. Unfortunately I don't remember the route.

sethb

How often is "everyone knows" accurate? When I was younger, "everyone knows" that continents don't move. "Everyone knows" that we're due another Ice Age. I suppose the temperature of Mars is also due to human-emitted carbon dioxide, since that has been showing the same variation as Earth's.

Some people are claiming that 2014 was the hottest year on record. The Berkeley Earth actual data says otherwise. Believe who you want.

Letitride3c

According to my Flightboard:
NK 180 FLL LGA 14:17 arrived Gate B6
NK 711 MYR LGA 15:35 arrived Gate B6
and
NK 171 LGA FLL 15:13 departed Gate B6 - en route

bowdenj

2 minutes video from Delta on recovery of New York region operations (interesting - that one guy's desk has 5+ monitors!!):



Sleeping on planes, ferry flights and more make for quick post-Juno recovery

mpheels

It looks like there's another storm lining up for the NE on Sunday and Monday. I'm from NC, and have only lived in MD for 18 months, so the whole process of winter travel and snow at airports in completely new for me.

I'm scheduled to fly BWI-SLC-LAS leaving at 4:25pm on Monday. According to the current forecast, Baltimore is supposed to get 5-8 inches overnight on Sunday, and an additional 1-3 on Monday morning. I'm fully prepared for delays, but have no frame of reference for how much snow will lead widespread cancellations. What should I expect with a ~10 inch snow fall at BWI during the 24 hour period before my flight?

krzysz

DL has posted an update about it:
https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...r-weather.html

and there is more information about the rebooking procedure on the DL travel website:
https://pro.delta.com/content/deltap...r-weather.html

I am wondering about the following: I am scheduled to fly on 3 February from BCN to JFK, overnight there and then fly from LGA to LIM on 4 February. I didn't intend to overnight in NYC originally but I couldn't book any flights without the overnight on the DL website even though they were available (I kept getting an error message when selecting the BCN-AMS-ATL-LIM routing).

Now, given the weather problems, I was wondering if DL would be willing to change the reservation in such a way so that I fly from BCN to LIM without the stop in NYC (for instance, via AMS on KLM or via CDG/ATL. There are no direct flights from BCN to ATL in winter). This would count as rerouting and could also involve a KLM/AF flight and I would get to LIM one day earlier as a result. Would they charge me for this? Does anyone have any experience in this area?

Of course, the easiest solution is to call DL and ask, but it's 2 am in Europe now so I thought I could do it tomorrow.

BobH

There's another part of winter travel you have to learn about and that's called "getting to the airport" or home --- as far as that goes anywhere else.

We're from the midwest, but lived in the DC area for a few years and used to take the amount of snow predicted and multiply by four to figure out the impact -- i.e. and inch in DC is like four at home and no big deal, but when you get to four....

<lol>

Bob H

sethb

You're allowed to change. Small change of dates doesn't matter (you're still within the window). You probably have a better chance the more DL metal you want to switch to, but it's really up to the agent. If you don't get anything satisfactory, agent roulette is the game to play.

jrl767

we were booked on SEA-DTW-BWI (lv 1055pm Sun, ar 9am Mon); just saw the forecasts and the waiver info for Michigan ... evidently the folks who noticed earlier snatched up all the SEA-ATL availability, so we switched to SEA-MSP-DCA (lv 1255am Mon, at 11am) (this is actually better because I don't have to pick up a rental car at BWI)

MSPeconomist

Well done.

MSP is scheduled for some snow very late tonight (Saturday night to Sunday morning), but probably just an inch or two; the MN border with Iowa should get six or eight inches before the storm aims for Chicago and then Detroit. By Sunday night, it should be no problem at MSP, even if there's a small problem early Sunday morning.

sethb

An inch of snow is not a problem for MSP (as I'm sure MSPeconomist knows).

MSPeconomist

Yep, but if the forecasts are wrong by a lot, there could be slight delays, although probably nothing at all serious. Even when roads and traffic are a real mess due to a snowstorm, flights tend to depart on schedule.

stencil

Any thoughts on how early flights out of JFK will be tomorrow? I have a 7am to LAX.

dd1612

Have a MSP-JFK-AMS-BOM flight on Feb 3.
Called today ... was told to call back tomorrow 2/2 evening at 6 pm.