AirTranTUS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 6 months 5 hours ago) and read 2820 times:
AA 431 flying MIA-SFO diverted to TUS this morning. It arrived at 10 AM and is scheduled to leave TUS for SFO in a few minutes at 10:40 AM. With such a short stop it is probably a medical diversion right?
When I saw the 757 fly overhead I thought it was a substitution for one of our DFW or ORD flights. Alas, not today.
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (6 years 6 months 4 hours ago) and read 2795 times:
I would have thought that a MIA-SFO flight would be routed up over the Four Corners area versus the TUS area. The 757 is not normally weight-restricted, and it makes me wonder if it might not have been a MEL-related restriction that made MIA-TUS doable but not MIA-SFO.
AirTranTUS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 4 hours ago) and read 2770 times:
Quoting OPNLguy (Reply 1): I would have thought that a MIA-SFO flight would be routed up over the Four Corners area versus the TUS area.
It looks like AA routes all of their MIA-SFO flights over ELP and Blythe according to the FlightAware routing. Holding up a piece of paper on a map I get that a straight shot from MIA-SFO goes nearly over LAS, so I guess AA uses a more southern route.
AS739X From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5818 posts, RR: 23 Reply 3, posted (6 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2544 times:
The routing varies with the winds aloft like almost every flight plan does.I have infact seen MIA-SFO flown farther north pending winds. But this time of year they stay farther south to avoid headwinds. Flight planning 101. I imagine the diverstion was medical related or some kind of passenger issue.
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OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2488 times:
Quoting AS739X (Reply 3): The routing varies with the winds aloft like almost every flight plan does.I have infact seen MIA-SFO flown farther north pending winds. But this time of year they stay farther south to avoid headwinds. Flight planning 101. I imagine the diverstion was medical related or some kind of passenger issue.
Our HOU-OAK goes north via J86 and comes in over OAL, which is why I assumed north was still the pref route. The jetstream isn't much of a factor today (coming onshore in the Pac NW), and what I should have done was just look at his original filing under the MIA-SFO. Our PHX-OAK and PHX-SJC flights also go via BXK PMD, although they used to go north via OAL as well.
AAL0616 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 264 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2310 times:
This was a fairly uncommon routing due to recent winds aloft. However, MIA-SFO trips can vary greatly. I have had trips fly westbound MIA north up to TLH, MEM and DEN due to conditions or, as in this example, southerly trips out over IAH and ELP.
Most of the time, MIA-SFO westbound does fly a more "northerly" route, that is, overflying MSY-DFW-ABQ (or) LAS, based upon the prevailing conditions, although more southerly westbound routings do occur such as this example. It is nice to have the southerly trips for a change of pace but they can take a bit longer. It can be more common for a southerly clearance on eastbound flights out of SFO, wherein you use the SIDs south as if flying to the SoCal area and then turning east and following a sort of LAX-MIA routing. In any case, all the LAX west/east trips depart/arrive MIA generally like the SFO flights when they transit Florida and the Gulf until offshore Louisiana on the Q100-Q105 SRQ-REDFN "freeway", diverging there where the SFO trips head up overhead DFW and the LAX trips continue out over IAH and AUS, thence ELP, etc. The LAX trips vary more than the SFO trips when they pass Arizona simply because of all the various STAR options for LAX and SoCal airspace, but those still involve fairly similar routing.
A "normal" MIA-SFO routing might be something like this:
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