Posted on 10/30/2021 4:12:24 PM PDT by RBW in PA
American Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights during the weekend, citing bad weather and staffing shortages. Two days of severe winds in Dallas-Fort Worth, its largest hub, sharply reduced its arrival capacity, the company said. Flights were also affected at its Charlotte, N.C. hub. “With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up out of their regular flight sequences,” American said in the statement to CNN. As of 4:00 p.m. EDT, FlightAware, an aviation tracking program, showed 460 flights, or 17% of the airline’s operations, were cancelled. Another nearly 300 flights, or 11% of its operations, were delayed. American also preemptively cancelled 284 flights on Sunday.
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Many pilots are using up all their vacation and sick time before bailing due to the vaccine mandates.
Excellent way to stick it to the pfascist airline.
Oh noes. Weather again? {wink, wink}
Just checked the WUnderground wundermap, < 10 mph across the entire US.
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Yes, they had wind and wind damage leading to flight backups along with pilots taking time off, which has been going on for weeks.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/10/28/crews-converge-texas-wind-damage-thousands-lose-power/
Is she flying her broom?
Must be the new replacement pilots having some difficulty after having just crossed the border.
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"señal de socorro feminine! señal de auxilio feminine!"
I was on a twa Indianapolis to Los Angeles thru dfw same day just before with my brother. Somehow my mother thought it was our flight. My grandmother said it had to be within of few minutes of our leaving.
LOLOLOLOLOL
Is that real?
So why don’t they just say that? Instead we get a BS story about the wind today, which any fool can check on WeatherBug.
Probably has something to do with Joseph Stolen.
HOLY CRAP!
“So why don’t they just say that?”
Not my circus, etc. That’s the state of journalism today. You have to dig extra to learn anything and any one story can be BS, even if it’s about a true subject.
CLT weather
TonightScattered showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. West southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. SundaySunny, with a high near 69. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 45. North wind 3 to 6 mph. MondaySunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming north northeast around 5 mph. Monday NightMostly clear, with a low around 46. Calm wind. TuesdayMostly sunny, with a high near 68. Tuesday NightMostly cloudy, with a low around 48. WednesdayPartly sunny, with a high near 58.
First SW and now American.
Not a trend, yet.
5.56mm
That can’t be real. Can you point me to a link?
SWA hub is Love Field, about 20 miles away. Did they cancel flights too?
Nice one Karl. Must be our new highly qualified illegal immigrants invading our borders that are replacing the unvaxxed pilots now flying the planes.
I wonder if the pilot screwed the pooch, or the autopilot malfunctioned. Anyway, it was a good recovery.
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