The weatherman is the Grinch

[lgg 2]

Oh I hear you on that! I am on that site all the time at travel time. That and accuweather.com which has the best weather and FAA flight stats and stuff like that.

It's so easy to become obsessive over this sort of stuff, isn't it?

Can't wait 'til I don't give a hoot about what the weather holds and if the airport is backed up.

hey Wyatt, if you haven't already, get yourself on Flight stats and accuweather...

Obsess with us, it'll be fun!

I've been checking flightstats.com religiously to watch for delays. Flying DFW to YYZ tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to see my lady on the other side of customs.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Oh I hear you on that! I am on that site all the time at travel time. That and accuweather.com which has the best weather and FAA flight stats and stuff like that.

It's so easy to become obsessive over this sort of stuff, isn't it?

Can't wait 'til I don't give a hoot about what the weather holds and if the airport is backed up.

hey Wyatt, if you haven't already, get yourself on Flight stats and accuweather...

Obsess with us, it'll be fun!

Oooh. I've only been doing Weather.com. Okay, good. Another couple of sites to bookmark and obsess over. Thanks!

[CdnMN 0]

You've been lucky never to have had a problem. Here's hoping this year will go smooth as well. Last christmas I was in Nova Scotia and my honey flew up from Wisconsin. What was suppose to be a six hour total flight, ended up being three days before he reached me, and lost luggage that was never found till the day before he went back home...he came for two weeks. They flew him all over hells creation trying to get him on a connecting flight, then the agent I spoke to told me they could fly him into Montreal right away, could I pick him up there......yes, its only a 14 hr drive, let me jump on Santa's sleigh as he goes by. As I was trying to get him on a flight that came into Halifax, he actually jumped on another plane to Washington in hopes of a connecting flight, and it paid off. He arrived Christmas Eve at 1 in the afternoon. I was so happy to see him! Oh, this probably depressed you...wasn't my intent. We kinda laugh at the whole thing now. Take care, and hopefully smooth flying for you both ways. Have a wonderful holiday and enjoy the visit.

Air Canada lost my wife!

One year, while I was still in Canada waiting for processing, my wife flew up for a visit. This was just after Air Canada and Continental merged. I was at Lester B (I think the B stands for BAD), and the flight status wasn't showing on the boards. Go to Air Canada to find out what's up. They tell me, due to the recent merger, the computers don't talk nice to each other. I need to go to the Continental desk. Continental sends me back to AC desk. Yes, it was their plane, but booked under AC, so it should be on their system.

AC tells me the flight is in at the little sub terminal and she shoud be in the main terminal soon. (This is already about 1 hours late). Next I get a call from my wife......she's in Detroit. The plane she was scheduled on (The one out at the little sub terminal according to AC) never left MN due to mechinical issues. They flewe her to Detroit to catch a connecting flight to Toronto and she was supposed to be in in about 2 hours.

Gotta love the airlines.

[CdnMN 0]

UGH!

My wife has a layover in Minneapolis on Thursday. I hope everything works out okay for you...and for us!

Hey Wyatt,

She would be welcome to stay with us. We can all drink and drown our sorrows together. I could hook up a webcam to my computer and we can all cry in our beer's...or scotch...or whatever.

Seriously, I hope she gets there without any delays. At least for us, we are at home. I hate living in the airport. People look at you funny when you curl up on across a couple of chairs with a teddy bear and battery powered night light.

The good news is that, as of right now, the worst of it may miss the Twin Cities proper and go a bit north. It will still be nasty...freezing drizzle, sleet and snow....but not the 1 foot + they were thinking.

Take care and with any luck at all, we will all get to where we want to be this Christmas.

CdnMn

[warlord 72]

Well I'll be flying from Denver to Canada tonight and the newest storm comming in from Arizona should be hitting here this evening. If I'm lucky I fly out before it starts hitting. Good thing I have a direct flight to Canada (Toronto) and no lay overs in Chicago this year. I'm just praying I get back home Sunday and the weather is good next week too as I am flying to L.A. then driving to Vegas for New Years.

New Years always seems to be the curse time, and weather is usually always screwed up for me driving to Vegas, so last year I decided to fly and it was so much nicer. Just hope flights are going out and no damn more snow storms till Jan please...

[trailmix 77]

So my Niece gets on the flight from Calgary to Minneapolis yesterday and they have to wait (as I mentioned before she missed her connecting flights) - anyway, they are waiting and the captain says something along the lines of:

"We are being delayed because we are waiting for a second de-icing. I fly in and out of a lot of places and we don't have to wait for a second de-icing"

Then a few minutes later

"We are still waiting for a second de-icing, in the U.S. they only do one de-icing, in fact this is the only place where they ever do two de-icing runs"

Guess it was making him a tad grouchy.

On a more somber note, one of the people who does the de-icing here in Calgary fell off of the machine yesterday and was killed, I suspect that slowed them down a bit - completely understandable.

[CdnMN 0]

Thank you Santa....or NWA in this case.

NWA just issued a travel waiver for flights out of MSP....among other airports.

We need to scramble a wee bit, but we are flying out tomorrow night at 7 pm. If we didn't take that flight, NWA was saying that it would likely be Sunday at best and more like Monday before they would get us to Toronto.

So, I get a couple extra days of some good old fashioned Dutch cooking and treats.

CdnMn

So my Niece gets on the flight from Calgary to Minneapolis yesterday and they have to wait (as I mentioned before she missed her connecting flights) - anyway, they are waiting and the captain says something along the lines of:

"We are being delayed because we are waiting for a second de-icing. I fly in and out of a lot of places and we don't have to wait for a second de-icing"

Then a few minutes later

"We are still waiting for a second de-icing, in the U.S. they only do one de-icing, in fact this is the only place where they ever do two de-icing runs"

Guess it was making him a tad grouchy.

On a more somber note, one of the people who does the de-icing here in Calgary fell off of the machine yesterday and was killed, I suspect that slowed them down a bit - completely understandable.

Was she visiting MN or just passing through?

[trailmix 77]

Was she visiting MN or just passing through?

Just connecting to a flight to Omaha

[CdnMN 0]

Just connecting to a flight to Omaha

Seems nobody but me gets to MN and just stays. I'm thinking I must have made the wrong decision years ago. I know I should have made a left turn at Albuquerque (as Bugs would say)

[kballtex 0]

Oooh. I've only been doing Weather.com. Okay, good. Another couple of sites to bookmark and obsess over. Thanks!

I spend a good deal of my work hours on the road, and flightstats is my go to most of the time.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Thank you Santa....or NWA in this case.

NWA just issued a travel waiver for flights out of MSP....among other airports.

Thanks so much for this info. My wife is flying on NWA.

I've just called and left a message for her, seeing if she wants to look into rescheduling so that her flight doesn't stop in the Midwest.

I hope she agrees...

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Woo hoo!!

My wife was able to switch to a flight that has a layover in Atlanta instead. No snow in the forecast there!

Thanks CdnMN...and thanks NWA! Makes me a very happy camper indeed!

[Wis-Can 0]

I don't exactly know why Reagan was so bad. I'm guessing they didn't have as much snow removal / deicing equipment as the other two local airports. IAD (Dulles) and Baltimore do a lot more international flights too, so perhaps they get a bigger budget? I've never flown through Dulles, so I really don't know what it's like. Reagan is a relatively small airport.

Just be glad you're flying into Baltimore!

Apparently my honey said that the gate agent told him when he wasn't sure if he should to take the Washington flight into Dulles, that it was his best bet to get a connecting flight into Canada that wasn't booked solid. She recommends it to most travelers when weather is an issue to try and get where they want to go.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Wyatt,

Hopefully there will be no problems with weather delays, although sometimes Atlanta experiences delays because of waiting for planes to arrive from snow-bound locations or they can't fly to a snow-bound location. Let us know if, heaven forbid, your wife runs into any delays in Atlanta. We're about 20 minutes from the airport and you can always consider us a 'backup' if her Atlanta connection flight is delayed or cancelled and she is facing a long wait here. I'll pm you my phone number.

[Malrothien 6]

To further what Kathryn said - Atlanta is a major hub for quite a few airlines and if they get backed up at other airports, Atlanta is going to be affected. The most important part about getting your wife out here - LEAVE EARLY. When we few in March, if we had left in the morning, we would've gotten to Florida in one day - not in two.