Locks like the Packers were on a DL charter. The Steelers flew US.

DFW closed this morning; unknown when it will reopen. Temps in low 20s, high winds, freezing rain.

http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airpor...tional+Airport

F9's morning MKE-DFW nonstop shows "delayed"" status, while the afternoon and evening nonstops to DFW are marked "cancelled." What a mess!

Will the carriers be able to get all of the fans whose flights are cancelled to Dallas in time? Hope everyone has trip insurance.

Morning flight now en route to DFW.

I heard that DFW is pretty good at keeping the runways clear of ice and snow. For a Southern City that is. :)

Looks like DFW is open again and is receiving some planes, but average ATC stop of over 3 hours. Backlog!

DAL (Love) closed at about 7:30 this morning and doesn't have any estimated update to open, which puts serious kinks in Southwest's ability to get people to Dallas, too.

Doing a quick tally, Love averages just under 15k local pax per day, while DFW is more like 50k, so DFW is definitely getting the bulk, but having DAL
closed is a hit, too.

Right now Frontier looks sold out to DFW for the rest of the week except for the mid-afternoon filght tomorrow. Perhaps they can swap another Airbus from BOS or DCA down to Dallas if they need to. And with interline agreements, they can probably do things like put people on MKE-SAT-DFW if need be.

SWA has posted that all of their MKE flights (inbound/outbound) are cancelled for the rest of the day, as well as tomorrow.

BTW, their site recognized me and greeted me with

How did they know I was a Packers fan? :D

If not logged-in with your RR number, there is just the generic homepage.

Funny! I got the HEY GREEN BAY FANS message too, and I don't have an RR nubmer to log in with. Maybe they are doing it by geo location of the IP? Kind of like when I'm on the road and a website banner ad says "Get great homeowners insurance rates for Wilmington Ohio" when I happen to be using Wifi in the hotel in that city.

Early this morning I noticed that Southwest seemed more aggressive about canceling their schedule -- everything after 10:45am was scrubbed. Most everybody else continues to run some flights this afternoon, although several are canceled due to conditions on the other end (O'Hare, Cincinnati, etc.) I'm sure it will change as evening approaches, but most of today is a relatively routine snow event here. In prior MKE snow and fog events, anecdotally it seems WN cancels sooner, too, but that's just my impression.

I assume their philosophy is to cancel on the aggressive side, and doing so probably helps them avoid last-minute cancelations which are the worst. I totally understand and agree with everybody canceling later this afternoon and tomorrow morning ahead of time. On the flip side, however, every canceled flight costs the airline money, and shutting down hours before most everybody else does creates extra customer frustration as they see other flights go, but Southwest can't put them on any other carrier.

There was one carrier who just threw in the towel in Milwaukee today, and that was Skywest flying as FL* -- all arrivals and departures were axed. Anybody know if they have only high-minimums crews or something like that which were hampered by the visibility? It isn't a beautiful day by any means, but except for St Louis, Frontier operated in and out of the same areas (OMA / PIT/ DSM / CLE / IND) without issue this morning. Of course this afternoon is a different story. But it surprised me they didn't run anything today...not even something like MKE-PIT-MKE this morning.

On a related weather note, looks like AirTran plans to send a few aircraft up to MSP from MKE later this afternoon. Both scheduled flights this PM (3:17pm and 8:50pm) are canceled, but they show some unscheduled four-digit flight numbers going -- one showing IAB as the departure gate. I'm guessing they are looking to get some aircraft out of Milwaukee so they are not stuck here uselessly for perhaps 36 hours.

Hmm...Maybe they got DOJ approval for the WN/FL acquisition and had to shut down SkyWest flying immediately. :D

LOL...I think that might be premature, but perhaps the (apparent) willingness to cancel the entire day right from the start reflects Skywest not planning to have the flying for long. The whole WN / FL scheduling is odd right now. Remember the second MKE-TPA AirTran is adding on May 3? It was loaded several days ago but loaded only for May 3rd, and it is at virtually the same time as the Southwest MKE-TPA nonstop (1 minute different). That's just strange, just like AirTran removing MKE-BWI for part of March, all of April, and into May. Hmmm....

Watch the Super Bowl in-flight
 

Tweet from flyfrontier:

Super Bowl send-offs at MKE
 

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee...s-parties.html

No mention of any Frontier celebration. Was/is there any?

None that I heard of. I think Frontier missed the ball on this one.

They were too busy sulking because their beloved Bronco's weren't playing.

Hey, hey, hey now... some of us are Bears fans. I think we deserve to sulk after Cutler's pathetic performance.

Thankfully, we had the Colorado State Univ. kid who at least kept the game interesting for the Packers fans. :)

Good luck to the Pack on Sunday! ;)