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Eye on the Sky: Air Travel Delays
Aired August 05, 2003 - 06:44 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: If you are flying for business this morning, hold on for just a second, want to check in with Travelocity's air traffic expert Rally Caparas on the line.
Good morning -- Rally.
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Good morning, Carol. We've seen schedules destroyed over the last couple of days in the northeast, and it looks like that's going to happen again later on this afternoon.
Boston, New York City Metros, Philadelphia and the D.C. Metros airports, you're looking at at least an hour delay into and out of those airports as we go into the evening hours. Rain and fog, thunderstorm activity, limited routes once again a problem.
Atlanta Hartsfield, we're delay free right now, but you can expect 45-minute arrival and departure delays later on in the afternoon and evening. We'll have low clouds and thunderstorms moving into the area, then, of course, blocked flight routes will be the primary problem.
Down in Florida more seasonal thunderstorm activity will kick in later on in the afternoon and evening. Expect 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays as is typical for this time of the year down there.
Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati-Covington airports, visibility problems are making the runway sites very, very, very poor at the moment. Expect 30 to 45-minute arrival delays as a result. And then the p.m., you'll see thunderstorm activity as blocked routes become problems with those thunderstorms in the east.
Chicago O'Hare, you'll have pretty decent weather at the airport proper, but you can expect 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays because of the blocked flight routes and slow traffic to and from the East Coast.
And then on the West Coast, San Francisco International, 30 to 45-minute arrival delays. Marine layer fog is going to be there once again. It should be gone by noon Pacific Time, on-time schedules thereafter.
I'll be back tomorrow morning with the latest from Travelocity's "Eye on the Sky." Robin, back -- I'm sorry, Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: I know you do a lot of these things in the morning. CAPARAS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rally, we appreciate it.
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Aired August 5, 2003 - 06:44 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: If you are flying for business this morning, hold on for just a second, want to check in with Travelocity's air traffic expert Rally Caparas on the line.
Good morning -- Rally.
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Good morning, Carol. We've seen schedules destroyed over the last couple of days in the northeast, and it looks like that's going to happen again later on this afternoon.
Boston, New York City Metros, Philadelphia and the D.C. Metros airports, you're looking at at least an hour delay into and out of those airports as we go into the evening hours. Rain and fog, thunderstorm activity, limited routes once again a problem.
Atlanta Hartsfield, we're delay free right now, but you can expect 45-minute arrival and departure delays later on in the afternoon and evening. We'll have low clouds and thunderstorms moving into the area, then, of course, blocked flight routes will be the primary problem.
Down in Florida more seasonal thunderstorm activity will kick in later on in the afternoon and evening. Expect 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays as is typical for this time of the year down there.
Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati-Covington airports, visibility problems are making the runway sites very, very, very poor at the moment. Expect 30 to 45-minute arrival delays as a result. And then the p.m., you'll see thunderstorm activity as blocked routes become problems with those thunderstorms in the east.
Chicago O'Hare, you'll have pretty decent weather at the airport proper, but you can expect 30 to 45-minute arrival and departure delays because of the blocked flight routes and slow traffic to and from the East Coast.
And then on the West Coast, San Francisco International, 30 to 45-minute arrival delays. Marine layer fog is going to be there once again. It should be gone by noon Pacific Time, on-time schedules thereafter.
I'll be back tomorrow morning with the latest from Travelocity's "Eye on the Sky." Robin, back -- I'm sorry, Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: I know you do a lot of these things in the morning. CAPARAS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rally, we appreciate it.
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