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Eye on the Sky: Holiday Travel
Aired December 20, 2002 - 06:18 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is the Friday before Christmas and I know a lot of you are flying home for the holidays. And to help you with your travels, we're starting a new segment here on CNN DAYBREAK called "Eye in the Sky." Every morning we'll fill you in on how the planes are flying and where those delays are.
Let us introduce you to our new guy, Rally Caparas. He's the air traffic expert for Travelocity.com. He writes his "Eye on the Sky" column on the Web early morning,...
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: That's right.
COSTELLO: ... and you're here with us today. And I know lots of people want to know the information so let's get to it.
CAPARAS: OK, Carol.
Well folks, I've been doing this now for about a year, and over the last four days I've been telling you on the East Coast excellent conditions, on time schedules all day long. But guess what, just in time for the busy rush, the holiday season, here comes the bad weather. It's not going to be so significant as it has been in the last couple of weeks though.
In the Northeast today, let's talk about the delays. If you're headed in to or out of Boston's Logan, Newark, LaGuardia or Philly airports, Philadelphia International, you can anticipate about 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays. And the reason for this is there's going to be low clouds, some poor visibility at the airport and the rain is going to roll through there. Strong winds will keep those delays going all the way in to the evening hours, so beware of that. Grab some coffee, make a friend in the airport.
Over the Great Lakes region, Chicago O'Hare and Midway airports will see low clouds and some snowy conditions move in as the day moves on. That means departure flight deicing. Expect 30-minute arrival and departure delays in to and out of Midway in Chicago for most of the day.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, just to the northwest of them, we'll see some snowy conditions, strong gusting winds to the tune of 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays all day long.
And then finally out West, San Francisco International, I don't have the graphics for you, but they will see 45 to 60 minute arrival delays for most of the day there for obvious reasons. COSTELLO: Oh yes, because it's snowing and raining and everything else in California.
CAPARAS: You got it.
COSTELLO: Hey, how do you get most of your inside information anyway?
CAPARAS: Well, Carol, I used to be an air traffic control specialist for many years, over a decade, and then I was a controller at the Command Center in Washington, D.C., or actually Northern Virginia. And as that person, I was that guy that got you stuck on the runways. When the pilot said air traffic control's got a delay on us, it was usually me doing it, especially in the East. So I have that experience. I access the same information from the Command Center and the FAA that I used to along with Chad Myers. I listen to his weather reports, use my information and combine it with his and I come up with my predictions. And I'm pretty good at it. Ask Las Vegas, they'll tell you.
COSTELLO: You certainly are, you're excellent at it. And you're going to be with us every day.
CAPARAS: Every day, yes, ma'am.
COSTELLO: Six fifteen -- thereabouts?
CAPARAS: I like to think it's 8:15 in my time.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Rally, thank you. We'll check back with you on Monday.
CAPARAS: I'll be here.
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Aired December 20, 2002 - 06:18 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is the Friday before Christmas and I know a lot of you are flying home for the holidays. And to help you with your travels, we're starting a new segment here on CNN DAYBREAK called "Eye in the Sky." Every morning we'll fill you in on how the planes are flying and where those delays are.
Let us introduce you to our new guy, Rally Caparas. He's the air traffic expert for Travelocity.com. He writes his "Eye on the Sky" column on the Web early morning,...
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: That's right.
COSTELLO: ... and you're here with us today. And I know lots of people want to know the information so let's get to it.
CAPARAS: OK, Carol.
Well folks, I've been doing this now for about a year, and over the last four days I've been telling you on the East Coast excellent conditions, on time schedules all day long. But guess what, just in time for the busy rush, the holiday season, here comes the bad weather. It's not going to be so significant as it has been in the last couple of weeks though.
In the Northeast today, let's talk about the delays. If you're headed in to or out of Boston's Logan, Newark, LaGuardia or Philly airports, Philadelphia International, you can anticipate about 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays. And the reason for this is there's going to be low clouds, some poor visibility at the airport and the rain is going to roll through there. Strong winds will keep those delays going all the way in to the evening hours, so beware of that. Grab some coffee, make a friend in the airport.
Over the Great Lakes region, Chicago O'Hare and Midway airports will see low clouds and some snowy conditions move in as the day moves on. That means departure flight deicing. Expect 30-minute arrival and departure delays in to and out of Midway in Chicago for most of the day.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, just to the northwest of them, we'll see some snowy conditions, strong gusting winds to the tune of 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays all day long.
And then finally out West, San Francisco International, I don't have the graphics for you, but they will see 45 to 60 minute arrival delays for most of the day there for obvious reasons. COSTELLO: Oh yes, because it's snowing and raining and everything else in California.
CAPARAS: You got it.
COSTELLO: Hey, how do you get most of your inside information anyway?
CAPARAS: Well, Carol, I used to be an air traffic control specialist for many years, over a decade, and then I was a controller at the Command Center in Washington, D.C., or actually Northern Virginia. And as that person, I was that guy that got you stuck on the runways. When the pilot said air traffic control's got a delay on us, it was usually me doing it, especially in the East. So I have that experience. I access the same information from the Command Center and the FAA that I used to along with Chad Myers. I listen to his weather reports, use my information and combine it with his and I come up with my predictions. And I'm pretty good at it. Ask Las Vegas, they'll tell you.
COSTELLO: You certainly are, you're excellent at it. And you're going to be with us every day.
CAPARAS: Every day, yes, ma'am.
COSTELLO: Six fifteen -- thereabouts?
CAPARAS: I like to think it's 8:15 in my time.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Rally, thank you. We'll check back with you on Monday.
CAPARAS: I'll be here.
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