Delays tonight in ATL (6JUL)
Jul 6, 2008, 9:10 pm
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Anyone know what was going on with delays at ATL tonight? It appeared that about 80% of all flights were delayed by 90 min or more. Mine (DL139) was delayed by more than 4 hours. The weather wasn't bad at ATL - just isolated showers and none over the airport. It must have been some kind of operational issue. Anyone know? Thanks in advance.
Anyone know what was going on with delays at ATL tonight? It appeared that about 80% of all flights were delayed by 90 min or more. Mine (DL139) was delayed by more than 4 hours. The weather wasn't bad at ATL - just isolated showers and none over the airport. It must have been some kind of operational issue. Anyone know? Thanks in advance.
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Jul 6, 2008, 10:07 pm
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Maybe the crews were watching the Braves game that went deep into extra innings.
Jul 6, 2008, 10:20 pm
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Anyone know what was going on with delays at ATL tonight? It appeared that about 80% of all flights were delayed by 90 min or more. Mine (DL139) was delayed by more than 4 hours. The weather wasn't bad at ATL - just isolated showers and none over the airport. It must have been some kind of operational issue. Anyone know? Thanks in advance.
Anyone know what was going on with delays at ATL tonight? It appeared that about 80% of all flights were delayed by 90 min or more. Mine (DL139) was delayed by more than 4 hours. The weather wasn't bad at ATL - just isolated showers and none over the airport. It must have been some kind of operational issue. Anyone know? Thanks in advance.
According to www.flightstats.com, there are loads of flights on every carrier delayed by 2-3 hours during the 6 - 9 PM time slot.
Jul 6, 2008, 10:47 pm
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Lots of storms up and down the East Coast. Doesn't help that it was a holiday weekend.
Jul 6, 2008, 10:58 pm
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One of the LAX flights took a 7 hour delay!
Multiple 9XXX flights inbound (JFK, DFW) with 2am+ arrival times! Multiple diversions and cancellations.
Bad day for ops it looks like!
Even the TLV 777 is 1+ hr late outbound (for seemingly no reason as ICN, NRT and PVG all were in around on time).
Multiple 9XXX flights inbound (JFK, DFW) with 2am+ arrival times! Multiple diversions and cancellations.
Bad day for ops it looks like!
Even the TLV 777 is 1+ hr late outbound (for seemingly no reason as ICN, NRT and PVG all were in around on time).
Jul 6, 2008, 11:06 pm
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Indeed a rough night in ATL and up and down the east coast. Real rough.
By 5pm ATL time, there were already 29 mainline diversions due to WX. Once the line of storms passed through, it took many hours for the ATL operation to catch-up, and there were still many storms all up and down the busy est coast, so many of the planes coming down from EWR/JFK/LGA/PHL/DCA/IAD/BOS were all delayed as well.
It'll be a slow recovery tomorrow AM. Expect many crew delays averaging well over 1 hour at the minimum end of the spectrum and some extending to 2-3 hour range depending on when the crews got into their night layover spots.
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By 5pm ATL time, there were already 29 mainline diversions due to WX. Once the line of storms passed through, it took many hours for the ATL operation to catch-up, and there were still many storms all up and down the busy est coast, so many of the planes coming down from EWR/JFK/LGA/PHL/DCA/IAD/BOS were all delayed as well.
It'll be a slow recovery tomorrow AM. Expect many crew delays averaging well over 1 hour at the minimum end of the spectrum and some extending to 2-3 hour range depending on when the crews got into their night layover spots.
-b-
Jul 6, 2008, 11:34 pm
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Indeed a rough night in ATL and up and down the east coast. Real rough.
By 5pm ATL time, there were already 29 mainline diversions due to WX. Once the line of storms passed through, it took many hours for the ATL operation to catch-up, and there were still many storms all up and down the busy est coast, so many of the planes coming down from EWR/JFK/LGA/PHL/DCA/IAD/BOS were all delayed as well.
It'll be a slow recovery tomorrow AM. Expect many crew delays averaging well over 1 hour at the minimum end of the spectrum and some extending to 2-3 hour range depending on when the crews got into their night layover spots.
-b-
By 5pm ATL time, there were already 29 mainline diversions due to WX. Once the line of storms passed through, it took many hours for the ATL operation to catch-up, and there were still many storms all up and down the busy est coast, so many of the planes coming down from EWR/JFK/LGA/PHL/DCA/IAD/BOS were all delayed as well.
It'll be a slow recovery tomorrow AM. Expect many crew delays averaging well over 1 hour at the minimum end of the spectrum and some extending to 2-3 hour range depending on when the crews got into their night layover spots.
-b-
Jul 7, 2008, 1:20 am
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Our daughter checked in at the airport at 6:15pm for a 7:30pm one hour flight to Atlanta. The flight was delayed four times. She finally left at 10:25pm, and if it had been another five minutes the crew would have timed out and she would not have been able to get there until morning.
She said that when she arrived in Atlanta it was complete chaos. Everyone she talked with said that the delays were weather related and that there had been tornado warnings in the Atlanta area.
Daughter got into her home at 1:25 am. She could have driven and arrived two hours earlier. GA was, however, very nice and gave her FC upgrade.
She said that when she arrived in Atlanta it was complete chaos. Everyone she talked with said that the delays were weather related and that there had been tornado warnings in the Atlanta area.
Daughter got into her home at 1:25 am. She could have driven and arrived two hours earlier. GA was, however, very nice and gave her FC upgrade.
Jul 7, 2008, 5:22 am
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Ahh, so this might explain why Mr Kimslie's PHX-ATL this morning is 3+ hour delayed? The crew may have arrived so late as to not have gotten their required layover/rest time?
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Jul 7, 2008, 5:30 am
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Explains why my 10:30am flight was cancelled to 5:10pm tonight. Ugh. Thanks to FT, I know why. 
Jul 7, 2008, 5:58 am
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Those flight numbers are used as "stubs" and as charter flight numbers, or even pseudo-flight numbers for test operations.
Last night's events necessitated the use of 9xxx numbers.
For example, say flight DL1456 operates DCA-ATL-TPA. Flight from DCA-ATL is delayed 2 hours. They have extra equipment and crew in ATL; they "stub" in the ATL-TPA segment to operate on-time (or close to on-time) as DL 9457 ATL-TPA to mitigate the effect down line and system wide. So at least the ATL-TPA leg is on-time.
Sort of like accounting...
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Last night's events necessitated the use of 9xxx numbers.
For example, say flight DL1456 operates DCA-ATL-TPA. Flight from DCA-ATL is delayed 2 hours. They have extra equipment and crew in ATL; they "stub" in the ATL-TPA segment to operate on-time (or close to on-time) as DL 9457 ATL-TPA to mitigate the effect down line and system wide. So at least the ATL-TPA leg is on-time.
Sort of like accounting...
-b-
Jul 7, 2008, 6:03 am
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Jul 7, 2008, 7:07 am
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Thanks!
It actually helps (for lack of a better word) to know why things are. Now wish me luck for my flights with the kiddos Wednesday... Thankfully they are 10 & 11, so they travel well... but I still hope for a smooth day.
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Jul 7, 2008, 7:24 am
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Most ATL DL morning flights seem to be OK with only a few delays.