DEN- closed for Blizzard
 

From what I understand, Denver is in rough shape right now. Over a foot of snow has fallen and still is but starting to tapper off. The word in a CO thread is that the airport will be closed to atleast tomarrow noontime. The FAA's website states that the time of DEN re-opening is not known. Thankfully, I'm not flying to DEN but I do feel bad for those who are stranded and are wondering if whether or not their holiday plans will remain intact.I am just curious if B6 will add in an extra flight or two over the next couple of days (once the airport opens) to help "clean up the mess."

More than likely, we have 2 crews stranded there already and there is a DEN trip in the opentime for BOS.

A conference call just took place and if I'm reading my communication message correctly, one extra flight from BOS (4491) and two extra for JFK.. But not entirely certain. The layout of excel docs within emails on my MacBook don't work too well, but I'm pretty sure thats what we're doing..

I saw the BOS extra session in our open pot time today.

BOS xtra section canceled
 

FYI

Flight 4491

Boston, MA (BOS)
Departure
Scheduled: 12:30AM, Dec 22
Actual: 12:30AM, Dec 22
Gate: C32
Denver, CO (DEN)

Arrival
Scheduled: 3:05AM, Dec 22
Actual: 3:05AM, Dec 22
Gate:


Status: CANCELLED Flight Duration: 4h 35min

That's a rough time to a flight. Granted, I know people have to get to DEN but still, 3 AM arrival?

Flight was booked to 156

Yeah, it is kinda late early morning around 3am in DEN. It not enough for night flight to DEN. It should be just fine for stranded passengers trying to get back to DEN.

Per the FAA, DEN is still closed, but some of the secondary Denver airports have opened and are seeing air traffic.

I suspect one big problem with DIA is going to be the access road - Pena Blvd. For DEN to re-start operations, it'll be necessary for vital employees (TSA, ATC controllers, ground employees, etc.) along with crews and passengers to get to the airport safely. Anyone who has driven Pena Blvd will know what a mess it can be during snow.

With the size of DIA, there is also a lot of snow to be cleaned off not only the runways, but the taxiways and ramps. I understand many planes are stuck there at the moment and they'll need good de-icings as well.

Hopefully JetBlue and all of the other carriers will be able to add some extra flights into DEN to accomodate the passengers who (1) are already there and (2) that were scheduled on flights that have been cancelled over the past few days. JetBlue has at least one aircraft stuck in Denver which will need a good de-icing ;) .

In fact, the last flight to land before the airport closed was a JetBlue A320 from JFK.

With all of the scheduled flights later today already full to begin with, it's going to be difficult, thus the need for some extra capacity. I expect the majors to not only run some additional flights, but to upgauge equipment on some routes to larger widebody aircraft when possible.

If you're in Denver or trying to get out of Denver, I wish you the best of luck!

Just wanted to wish everyone flying to/from DEN this holiday weekend the best of luck again with the new storm. Anyone in DEN who has updates/travel reports to post here it would be greatly appreciated!

I know we sent a couple of extra sessions to help get our customers out.