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Unusually High Number Of Diverts To DEN Jan 2

Brick From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1571 posts, RR: 8
Posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1594 times:

There was an unusually high number of flights diverted to Denver Int'l today. I can't find anything useful on the individual airline's websites regarding the reasons. Can anyone tell me why these flights were diverted to Denver? No guesses, I'd like to know the actual reason! I like to keep detailed notes after a full day's worth of photography...

Air Canada A319, YUL-LAX (AC0797)
American Airlines 757, HDN-ORD (AA2318)
Delta Airlines 757, EGE-ATL (DL1295)
Midwest M80, MCI-SFO (YX918)
Northwest Airlines 757, EGE-MSP (NW1654)

Thanks to those than can provide this information!

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Ordpark From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 541 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1580 times:

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I'm only speculating, but my guess is that the flts out of HDN and EGE were unable to carry enough fuel along with a full psgr load out of there origin stations and had to stop in DEN for fuel...no idea about the others...

F9HNLPLZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 108 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1547 times:

I also heard Southwest had a flight from BNA to OAK that diverted to DEN as well. It was a busy day at DIA...

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Brick From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1571 posts, RR: 8
Reply 3, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1534 times:

Quoting F9HNLPLZ (Reply 2):
I also heard Southwest had a flight from BNA to OAK that diverted to DEN as well. It was a busy day at DIA...

I believe that was on Dec 31. Two Southwest 73G's, one from PHX the other from DAL, arrived today to start revenue service tomorrow.

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Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7411 posts, RR: 9
Reply 4, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1516 times:

Northwest flight was diverted to denver to get more fuel due to enroute weather.

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DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1503 times:

Quoting Brick (Reply 3):

I believe that was on Dec 31. Two Southwest 73G's, one from PHX the other from DAL, arrived today to start revenue service tomorrow.

The one brought in from DAL was actually only here for a few hours, it was so new it hadn't even flown a revenue flight I believe, something like 2 weeks since final assembly. After the media event it flew on to PHX.

Brick From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1571 posts, RR: 8
Reply 6, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1478 times:

Quoting DLKAPA (Reply 5):
The one brought in from DAL was actually only here for a few hours, it was so new it hadn't even flown a revenue flight I believe, something like 2 weeks since final assembly. After the media event it flew on to PHX.

N228WN arrived from DAL a little bit before 11:00am. I think that's the one with all of the Southwest big-wigs on it. N223WN arrived from PHX around 3:15pm. It came in just a minute or two before the LH A346 Star Alliance. Smile

I guess N223WN will operate the first flight in the morning. I was guessing that Southwest would have brought in a theme plane for the first day of flights. I would have liked to see the Slam Dunk c/s again...

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Brick From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1571 posts, RR: 8
Reply 7, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1401 times:

Ah, I hadn't seen those yet. Nice!

Back to topic, so we have NW being a fuel divert. That seems strange, but sometimes things don't go as planned I guess. What about the others?

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Tornado82 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1224 times:

Don't forget the severe storms across the country yesterday... leading to higher fuel requirements for reroutes and holds... and some airfields (inc. ORD) being closed for periods of time.

Jeb94 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 588 posts, RR: 5
Reply 9, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 1105 times:

Weather is the culprit. The west coast has been slammed by heavy rains, especially northern CA. Southern CA got it yesterday. We had a lot of flow issues here in LAS because of weather in CA and eventually here in LAS. Severe storms rolled through Chicago and Atlanta yesterday as well.

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