Travel Waiver: IAH Severe Weather 17-20 Sept 2019 (* IAH is re-opened *)
#61
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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Maybe it isn't as simple as just waiting for the flood waters to recede. Maybe it has something to do with rolling delays and cancellations and the effects of those on availability of flight crews and ground crews and agents, etc., etc.
Maybe it just isn't as easy to overcome a mess like this as we would like it to be...
Maybe it just isn't as easy to overcome a mess like this as we would like it to be...
#62
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,158
A few years ago during polar vortex, UA got its 772 ORD-HNL out when weather was so extreme that almost all flights ex ORD were cx.
#63
Join Date: Jun 2006
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That's what we saw out of IAH this morning - lots of RJs cancelled, rearrangements of incoming flights to outgoing flights for the bigger birds like crazy.
#64
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: IAH and HOU
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IAH is always unpredictable!
I checked yesterday morning at 8:30 ish and it was On Time scheduled to depart. An hour and a half before takeoff they cancelled the flight.
I went on my flight app and they did exactly as described. All planes departing were IAH - Hubs and/or destination's with larger outgoing flights.
The weather in Houston has been sunny with scattered storms over the past 24 hours.