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Username: Cle757
Posted 2008-07-27 11:33:08 and read 2239 times.
We have an Air France 777 diversion in CLE right now...anyone know where it was going?
Username: PITrules
Posted 2008-07-27 11:39:16 and read 2219 times.
Username: Lincoln
Posted 2008-07-27 12:33:35 and read 2126 times.
Quoting PITrules (Reply 1):
IAD
Cleveland seems...ummm...a bit far out of the way, why here? (And if coming this far out of the way why not, say, DTW where they actually have (had?) scheduled service.
Username: N766UA
Posted 2008-07-27 12:41:20 and read 2097 times.
Cleveland's the nearest airport with a skyteam hub that isn't being affected by weather. That's most likely why it's there.
Username: PITrules
Posted 2008-07-27 12:42:50 and read 2080 times.
Quoting Lincoln (Reply 2):
Cleveland seems...ummm...a bit far out of the way, why here? (And if coming this far out of the way why not, say, DTW where they actually have (had?) scheduled service.
Could be a number of reasons. BWI is close to IAD, but is having weather issues as well. As of this post, I can see that PIT has already taken at least 13 mainline diversions and several regionals, so while I'm not at the airport, I imagine gate space is becoming an issue (the airport is half empty because of the US dehubbing, but most of those gates are blocked off and not usable on short notice).
CLE makes sense, because if the return to IAD is significantly delayed, perhaps AF can deplane and book connections on CAL (Skyteam partner).
DTW might just have been a little too far considering fuel requirements.
Username: MasseyBrown
Posted 2008-07-27 14:03:23 and read 1944 times.
Quoting PITrules (Reply 4):
DTW might just have been a little too far considering fuel requirements.
The difference between CDG-CLE and CDG-DTW is 22nm. 
Username: PITrules
Posted 2008-07-27 14:09:38 and read 1919 times.
Quoting MasseyBrown (Reply 5):
The difference between CDG-CLE and CDG-DTW is 22nm.
The difference from the IAD area (where it diverted from) to CLE vs DTW is a bit more than that. The flight didn't divert to CLE right out of CDG.
Username: CALMSP
Posted 2008-07-27 14:14:52 and read 1904 times.
this is in preperation of the rumored CLE-CDG AF 777 service. If CLE can handle this widebody, then AF will probably fly in on a regular basis.
Username: N766UA
Posted 2008-07-27 16:35:56 and read 1725 times.
Quoting MasseyBrown (Reply 5):
The difference between CDG-CLE and CDG-DTW is 22nm.
He may have left CDG, but by the time he'd made a choice to divert he was over Connecticut. The difference between his holding pattern and CLE vs. DTW is almost 100nm.
Username: DTWAGENT
Posted 2008-07-27 17:10:53 and read 1668 times.
Unless he had a medical emergency and CLE was the closest fast place to land. Let us remember the AF does have several flights that fly this path heading to Texas and ATL.
Chuck
Username: MasseyBrown
Posted 2008-07-27 20:22:00 and read 1475 times.
Quoting N766UA (Reply 8):
by the time he'd made a choice to divert he was over Connecticut. The difference between his holding pattern and CLE vs. DTW is almost 100nm.
Something like 64nm using BDL as a reference point. I'd have expected AF to use one of their joint venture partners' hubs.
Username: HB-IWC
Posted 2008-07-28 01:48:48 and read 1317 times.
Quoting N766UA (Reply 3):
Cleveland's the nearest airport with a skyteam hub that isn't being affected by weather.
I don't think that plays much of a role at all. KL641 AMS JFK B744 PH-BFG diverted to Syracuse, which I don't remember to be anyone's hub.
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