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Eye on the Sky: Air Travel Delays

Aired June 12, 2003 - 06:41   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Traveling this morning, are you? Well, it's time to check in with Travelocity's air traffic expert. Rally Caparas live on the line.
Rally, tell us, any delays this morning?

RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Good morning, Carol.

Well this morning it's going to look kind of like it did yesterday. Things are going to run smoothly for most of the country, even the East Coast; and then all of a sudden, late afternoon and early evening, you'll start to see things fall apart. We saw two and three-hour delays out of the northeast yesterday as a result of those thunderstorms.

Here's what's going to happen today.

Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, you'll see delay-free conditions for the first part of the day. Then 45 to 60-minute arrival and departure delays will be problems later on this afternoon and evening as low clouds, rain and thunderstorm activity kicks up all throughout the northeastern portion of the U.S.

D.C. Metros and Atlanta, they'll be delay free for most of the day also and then 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays will kick in around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and you'll stay that way until about 8:00 p.m.

Miami and Fort Lauderdale, delay free early also, then seasonal thunderstorm activity kicks up. That means 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays as usual for this time of the year.

Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati-Covington, they'll be under clouds for most of the day. Forty-five minute arrival and departure delays as a result. There will also be some low clouds -- I mean some rain and then thunderstorm activity blocking routes this evening that'll keep those delays going.

St. Louis Lambert Airport, they've got about a mile of visibility and about a 200-foot cloud deck, makes things hard for air traffic control and the pilots. Thirty to 45-minute arrival delays as a result, but things should improve there by the early afternoon hours.

And then on the West Coast, you could probably say it without me helping, San Francisco, 30 to 45-minute arrival delays, low clouds and marine layer fog. It should stick around until about noon Pacific Time, then clear as the sun burns it off and on-time schedules for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

I'll be back tomorrow morning in the studio with you, Carol, with the latest from Travelocity's "Eye on the Sky."

COSTELLO: That's right, live and in person. Thank you, Rally, appreciate it.

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Aired June 12, 2003 - 06:41   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Traveling this morning, are you? Well, it's time to check in with Travelocity's air traffic expert. Rally Caparas live on the line.
Rally, tell us, any delays this morning?

RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Good morning, Carol.

Well this morning it's going to look kind of like it did yesterday. Things are going to run smoothly for most of the country, even the East Coast; and then all of a sudden, late afternoon and early evening, you'll start to see things fall apart. We saw two and three-hour delays out of the northeast yesterday as a result of those thunderstorms.

Here's what's going to happen today.

Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, you'll see delay-free conditions for the first part of the day. Then 45 to 60-minute arrival and departure delays will be problems later on this afternoon and evening as low clouds, rain and thunderstorm activity kicks up all throughout the northeastern portion of the U.S.

D.C. Metros and Atlanta, they'll be delay free for most of the day also and then 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays will kick in around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and you'll stay that way until about 8:00 p.m.

Miami and Fort Lauderdale, delay free early also, then seasonal thunderstorm activity kicks up. That means 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays as usual for this time of the year.

Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati-Covington, they'll be under clouds for most of the day. Forty-five minute arrival and departure delays as a result. There will also be some low clouds -- I mean some rain and then thunderstorm activity blocking routes this evening that'll keep those delays going.

St. Louis Lambert Airport, they've got about a mile of visibility and about a 200-foot cloud deck, makes things hard for air traffic control and the pilots. Thirty to 45-minute arrival delays as a result, but things should improve there by the early afternoon hours.

And then on the West Coast, you could probably say it without me helping, San Francisco, 30 to 45-minute arrival delays, low clouds and marine layer fog. It should stick around until about noon Pacific Time, then clear as the sun burns it off and on-time schedules for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

I'll be back tomorrow morning in the studio with you, Carol, with the latest from Travelocity's "Eye on the Sky."

COSTELLO: That's right, live and in person. Thank you, Rally, appreciate it.

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