just a bit better

Flight: (UA) United Airlines 975
Departure Date: Fri Aug 21, 2009
Status: Flight is Currently En Route
Delayed 240 minutes
Last change to status 3 minutes ago
Arrival Estimate: Estimated Gate Arrival at 12:05 AM


LOL, still on the ground, but, hey, it left the gate

Some more IAD fun....
933 from FRA was diverted to Richmond, VA. Got there at 8:40, scheduled to fly to IAD at 10:30.

The continuation of 933, IAD-DEN, was scheduled to leave at 9:55 p.m., it's now scheduled to go at 1:00 a.m.


Both 915 from Paris and 951 from Brussels diverted to Atlantic City and have since landed at Dulles.

Wirelessly posted (goingaway's phone: BlackBerry8900/4.6.1.231 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

There is still rain in the area, but most of the bad storms have left

Didn't realize the runway was that long there!

Neither did I. Thought they'd have to land on the Expressway.

975 is now in flight, scheduled to arrive to SFO at 12:14 a.m., a little over four hours late.

Departed at :28 past the hour. Yahoo....

Runway 4-22 is 10000 feet. The airport also handles the NJ Air National Guard, with its fighters, and while it may not be everyone's first diversion choice, it can handle widebodies.

Any information on ATL? My sister's flight has been on the tarmac for 45 minutes now, awaiting take off to TLV.

Edited: nevermind, apparently they've just taken off.

Looking at realtime radar @ weather.com-ATL or the FAA site-ATL are the best sites
for general delay info.

For USA in general
Flight Delay Information - Air Traffic Control System Command Center

DL152 appears to be about 250 miles from ATL. ETA 5:30pm local time in TLV.

Listening to ATC at IAD, they're still vectoring inbounds around weather, but things appear to be flowing better. I'm seeing a couple of diverted departures. Unclear on that. Looks like UA933, bound for DEN, has diverted to RIC....and just returned back to IAD. Wow, weird night...

Was on UA 660 today. Did 45 minutes on the ground in DEN after push. Put in one hold after another on arrival into IAD. Pilot came on and said we'd have 3 laps in this last hold otherwise it would be RIC for us. IAD came back just in time and set the airport up for approaches on 19L/R. We headed north of the airport and the controller asked the guy in front of us if he could take a 10 knot tailwind on landing since winds were out of the north. Both our aircraft could, but the winds strengthened to 12 knots, above the limit. ATC informed us it would be another hold while the airport was reconfigured. Our pilot refused and took us to BWI.

A great day to have Channel 9 on!

A great day for Ch 9 indeed. Especially listening to Dulles Metering which appears to have no rules when it comes to pilots talking to other pilots. Some interesting transmissions:

Pilot A: XX YYYY can I get a number to a super?
Controller: I can get you the number to Command Center.
Pilot A: Sure
Controller: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Pilot A: Ya, thanks (sarcastic).
Pilot B: If that doesn't work, why don't you all 1-800-Mother Nature
Pilot C: LOL
Pilot A: Ya, I would have but the weather was 80 miles east an hour ago.
Pilot B: Boo-hoo.


Pilot A: Have I cleared Metering yet?!?!
Controller: Who are you?
Pilot A: XX YYYY
Controller: No, you're number 7.
Pilot A: I've been waiting here for nearly an hour.
[10 second pause]
Pilot B: Wow...an hour isn't that long.
Controller: Ya, really. Wahh.
Pilot A: When will the weather clear?
Controller: I didn't get my meteorologist degree.


Then the metering controller seemed to go on a 10 minute hiatus, but all the pilots are still talking!

"Where is this guy?!?!
"Took a vacation, or something".


Sitting at the Red Roof Inn, but apperntly not because of the Paid F. Agent said no, only 1K/GS. I then mumbled something and she went, "Are you Premier Exec?" I said yes and she said, "Okay, I can get you a hotel".

I left it at that :D

Bad night around IAD.

Things quieted down after 9-10, but then picked up big time around midnight. IAD ended Fri with a record for the day 2.2+ inches of rain ... areas north/west got upwards of 4 inches.

Seems the front is taking its time coming through the area and everyone in the DC metro area is under a flood watch until late Sat.

Round 2 of "Total Mess" is expected today.