aindfan

I'm in the same boat (plane?) and not too worried. The latest forecast looks like snow overnight tonight with a mess of a commute tomorrow morning. As long as they can get a 777, a few 757s, and a 767 to EWR by tomorrow evening I don't think we'll have a problem.

iahphx

Rebooking from tomorrow to today from the Mid-Atlantic is looking very smart right now. I just hope the flights operate: at least the hub weather looks OK. The worst would be getting your flight cancelled, and then getting stuck in the storm.

kluever

Just changed my flight tomorrow (Thursday) from ZFV-EWR-PDX (with a mid-afternoon EWR-departure) to EWR-IAH-PDX (departing EWR @ 5:25am).

Fingers crossed EWR is semi-clear at that hour.

unvested

I see many people changing flights to early Thursday. I believe the weather is forecasted to start around midnight early Thursday. Why is a 5AM flight more likely to get out than a 1PM?

bluedog423

Because the plane is then already there? Always a better chance for a flight to occur when it's the plane's first flight of the day. There's a ripple effect to flights later in the day when bad weather occurs. My plane tomorrow is going CLT-IAD-JAX-ORD before getting to the airport I'm departing from in the Northeast...not too confident it's going to make it to me.

drewguy

+1. And sometimes they can keep the runways open for a bit until it becomes overwhelming.

unvested

Yeah, understand the dynamics. However, I would think that ~6 hours into the weather system travel delays would already have the full impact. I've got a flight to STT at 9:24 tomorrow - my guess is that plane is not going to leave...

mk1

It's an early AM flight, so I could be screwed if the inbound is cancelled on Thursday. Yes, I'm still reasonably confident I'll be able to get out. My point was that UA in is being less flexible than all the other major carriers out of DC.

topcat_dcx

so originally i was CVG-IAD-DXB on 13th and I moved it to 2/12. Then today morning, UA cxl my CVG-IAD flight and rebooked me into Y for tomorrow via DEN. Its crazy! I am still debating if I should leave via ORD-ZRH-DXB even tonight..

gamma

I was in PHL on that December storm that seemed to get everyone off guard (calling for a dusting starting at 5pm on the Sunday, instead it started at 11am and snowed like a foot - there was a home Eagle's game everyone was talking about). Sitting at the gate for PHL-CLE-IND going home, waiting for the delay the post. The gate agent paged all passengers headed to Indianapolis and proactively rebooked us on US direct PHL-IND flight in an attempt to get us home rather than stranded in CLE.

US managed to screw that up... Kept delaying the flight, and then cancelled it but it never posted on their systems - at 11pm it still showed "Delayed: 5:30pm" on their website and when the agents in the Club looked it up. They took an on time departure at a 5:45pm flight, leaving us on the 2:30 in the lurch to fend for ourselves (it was overbooked to begin with). Ended up getting on a flight that arrived in SDF at 2am, staying overnight, and driving home the next day.

carsnoceans

I don't believe tomorrow any flights will take-off past early morning.

Question is - Given LGAs lack of preparedness for snow, will their operations be back up by Friday evening?

noah

I couldn't decide what to do, but ultimately decided that it would be prudent to try and avoid EWR. ^ to the UA agents here in the UK who re-booked me to fly BHX-FRA-SEA-PDX. that only Y was available from BHX to FRA (and of course SEA-PDX), but ^^^^ that somehow my SEA-FRA flight booked into A(!) so I'm very excited for my first visit to the new LH F...

cruisr

OK this is don't understand. Just got a text my flt into EWR today, arriving before snow is to arrive had been xld. Advised all flights today Into nyc area are being xld. I am rebooked for tomorrow when it may possibly be worse. Snow is not to start until after midnight so don't know why all the xls today.

I guess they don't want planes stuck there tomorrow?

mahasamatman

Exactly. It's better to park the planes where the weather is good than to have them sit out in the elements. It also makes it easier for the airport authority to clean up the airport if there aren't a lot of idle planes littering the ramp.

gamma

^ :-: