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Memorial Day Flight Forecast

Aired May 24, 2002 - 08:34   ET

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CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Not much else going on, in my world, anyway, but Rally may have a different story.

Hey, Rally, prepare us now -- from Orbitz, air traffic specialist.

What do you do up there, Rally? How do you figure all this out?

RALLY CAPARAS, ORBITZ: Well, you know, Chad, my job is to identify where the delays are. I used to be an air traffic controller, so I identify the delays, the volume, traffic density, emergency situations, and then I go to my special tools that Orbitz designed for me and I spend out thousands of messages a day to passengers that are traveling.

About these specific delays -- let's talk about delays today. If you're traveling on the East Coast, as Chad just told us, Miami to Boston, great conditions.

However, if you're flying into or out of the major airports up in the Northeast later this afternoon and evening, you can anticipate maybe 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays because of en route weather: low clouds, rain, and thunderstorm activity. Not at the airport necessarily, but en route.

In the Great Lakes region, Cleveland, Detroit, and Cincinnati will see 30 minute arrival and departure delays because of low clouds, rain, and en route thunderstorms. And they may experience them at the airports proper.

Here in Chicago, we're looking at clear skies, beautiful conditions, but 30 minute departure delays are likely because of storms that are south and east of us here in the United States.

St. Louis and Kansas City aren't so lucky, though: 30 to 45 minute arrival and departure delays are likely, low clouds, rain, and thunderstorms at the airports and the surrounding area.

Dallas-Fort Worth passengers will see 15 to 30 minute departure delays because of the storms to the north of them near St. Louis and Kansas City.

Then finally, Denver will see three seasons worth of weather today: rain, low clouds, fog, you name it. But it's only going to cause them 15 to 30 minute arrival and departure delays because they have such an efficient large airport there.

I'll have more for you at the bottom of the next hour.

Let's go back to Jack, in New York.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Look forward to it, Rally. Thanks very much.

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