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Eye on the Sky: Air Travel Delays
Aired September 18, 2003 - 06:40 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: I know a lot of you have travel plans and you are wondering what to do about them. Well, we have Travelocity's air traffic expert in the house. Rally Caparas is here.
OK, so how is the hurricane going to affect air travel today?
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Well not just going to, Carol, it already has started to affect things around the southeast coast. From Myrtle Beach all the way up into Richmond right now, things are already starting to come to a full stop for airplanes.
Let's take a look at FlightExplorer.com and I'll explain a little bit more. You're seeing about 1,333 airplanes in the skies right now. That's the blue dots that you see. The large swirling thing there, well that's Isabel, as you probably already knew. Many of the airports are underneath that large mass right now seeing 30 to 50 knot winds. They are closing operations. If they haven't shut down operations, they will soon.
The airports that are affected right now are Myrtle Beach, Wilmington, Raleigh-Durham, Norfolk and Richmond, either zero or limited operations. And soon all of them will be zero operations.
By noon Eastern Time, you'll start to see operations at Washington Dulles, Reagan National, Baltimore-Washington and Philadelphia be affected. Limited operations into and out of those airports as a result of the strong gusting winds. And delays into New York City will be two to three hours. Newark's delays could be longer than that with their runway construction project limiting them to one runway.
And then by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, expect Washington Dulles, Reagan National, Baltimore and Philadelphia to be forced to basically suspend their operations. There may not be any airplanes flying after 5:00 p.m. in the northeast, as far -- as far north as Philadelphia once we get to the evening rush hour.
I'll be back in a half hour with the latest "Eye on the Sky." Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Yes, you are going to appear on "AMERICAN MORNING," too, this morning, and we appreciate it. Rally Caparas, Travelocity's Air Traffic Expert.
Of course we'll be tracking Isabel all day long, and we'll bring you regular weather and travel updates. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Aired September 18, 2003 - 06:40 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: I know a lot of you have travel plans and you are wondering what to do about them. Well, we have Travelocity's air traffic expert in the house. Rally Caparas is here.
OK, so how is the hurricane going to affect air travel today?
RALLY CAPARAS, AIR TRAFFIC SPECIALIST, TRAVELOCITY.COM: Well not just going to, Carol, it already has started to affect things around the southeast coast. From Myrtle Beach all the way up into Richmond right now, things are already starting to come to a full stop for airplanes.
Let's take a look at FlightExplorer.com and I'll explain a little bit more. You're seeing about 1,333 airplanes in the skies right now. That's the blue dots that you see. The large swirling thing there, well that's Isabel, as you probably already knew. Many of the airports are underneath that large mass right now seeing 30 to 50 knot winds. They are closing operations. If they haven't shut down operations, they will soon.
The airports that are affected right now are Myrtle Beach, Wilmington, Raleigh-Durham, Norfolk and Richmond, either zero or limited operations. And soon all of them will be zero operations.
By noon Eastern Time, you'll start to see operations at Washington Dulles, Reagan National, Baltimore-Washington and Philadelphia be affected. Limited operations into and out of those airports as a result of the strong gusting winds. And delays into New York City will be two to three hours. Newark's delays could be longer than that with their runway construction project limiting them to one runway.
And then by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, expect Washington Dulles, Reagan National, Baltimore and Philadelphia to be forced to basically suspend their operations. There may not be any airplanes flying after 5:00 p.m. in the northeast, as far -- as far north as Philadelphia once we get to the evening rush hour.
I'll be back in a half hour with the latest "Eye on the Sky." Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Yes, you are going to appear on "AMERICAN MORNING," too, this morning, and we appreciate it. Rally Caparas, Travelocity's Air Traffic Expert.
Of course we'll be tracking Isabel all day long, and we'll bring you regular weather and travel updates. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
