ATL Groundstop
Aug 18, 2016 | 3:23 pm
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ATL Groundstop
Like winter snows at MSP and DTW, summer storms are rocking the ATL traffic patterns. Sitting at BHM in FC with a PDB and half way through boarding gate agent advises a Groundstop at the ATL! Sounds like it could be a fun night for agents for flights to and those in ATL. Best of luck to all 
Aug 18, 2016 | 3:33 pm
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Like winter snows at MSP and DTW, summer storms are rocking the ATL traffic patterns. Sitting at BHM in FC with a PDB and half way through boarding gate agent advises a Groundstop at the ATL! Sounds like it could be a fun night for agents for flights to and those in ATL. Best of luck to all
Best of luck!
Aug 18, 2016 | 4:19 pm
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Like winter snows at MSP and DTW, summer storms are rocking the ATL traffic patterns. Sitting at BHM in FC with a PDB and half way through boarding gate agent advises a Groundstop at the ATL! Sounds like it could be a fun night for agents for flights to and those in ATL. Best of luck to all
and my experience with ground stops is they usually aren't a problem if you're connecting at that airport
because everything stops
connections in other cities is a different story !!!
Bob H
Aug 18, 2016 | 5:44 pm
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Turned out to be a short one but still many missed connections I heard on my flight. Thankfully made mine!
Aug 18, 2016 | 9:22 pm
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True, but usually a stop is preceded or followed by reduced capacity. And unfortunately they typically give preference for wide-body planes or international flights when things are restricted (because it gets more passengers on their way per flight). Not what you want if you are trying to connect from a regional location like BHM to an INTL flight!
Aug 19, 2016 | 9:25 am
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Like winter snows at MSP and DTW, summer storms are rocking the ATL traffic patterns. Sitting at BHM in FC with a PDB and half way through boarding gate agent advises a Groundstop at the ATL! Sounds like it could be a fun night for agents for flights to and those in ATL. Best of luck to all
Aug 23, 2016 | 5:23 pm
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LGA was hell on Sunday afternoon/evening. I'd estimate that 30-40% of all of the flights on the departure board were cancelled.
I had one LGA-PIT flight delayed, delayed, then outright cancelled. The next flight was just delayed about an hour.
Despite the bad day everyone at LGA was having, the termianl D SC staff was nothing short of exceptional.
I had one LGA-PIT flight delayed, delayed, then outright cancelled. The next flight was just delayed about an hour.
Despite the bad day everyone at LGA was having, the termianl D SC staff was nothing short of exceptional.
Aug 23, 2016 | 5:57 pm
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LGA was hell on Sunday afternoon/evening. I'd estimate that 30-40% of all of the flights on the departure board were cancelled.
I had one LGA-PIT flight delayed, delayed, then outright cancelled. The next flight was just delayed about an hour.
Despite the bad day everyone at LGA was having, the termianl D SC staff was nothing short of exceptional.
I had one LGA-PIT flight delayed, delayed, then outright cancelled. The next flight was just delayed about an hour.
Despite the bad day everyone at LGA was having, the termianl D SC staff was nothing short of exceptional.