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What Is Going On With US Airways Diverting To ABQ?  
User currently offlineEwRkId From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 594 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 2366 times:

i just tracked my friends flight PHL-LAX AWE1416 and it says it is going to ABQ I also checked AWE1417 and thats diverting to ABQ also what going on here?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1416
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1417

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User currently offlineKELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5932 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 2331 times:

Short answer: fully loaded A321 + fighting strong winter jet stream + transcon westbound = insuffecient range  

[Edited 2008-12-18 16:00:24]


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User currently offlineEwRkId From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 594 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 2315 times:

ahhh should have thought of that well that is unfortunate for her  Embarrassment

thanks for the help
EwRkId

User currently offlineKELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5932 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 2307 times:



Quoting EwRkId (Reply 2):
thanks for the help

No prob!

Welcome to a.net, by the way....  Smile


Celebrating the birth of KELPkidJR on August 5, 2009 :-)
User currently offlineEwRkId From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 594 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 2110 times:

good thinking my friend texted me saying they were on the ground in ABQ..and she and her family got a later flight onto LAX

User currently offlineOPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 2084 times:

Quoting KELPkid (Reply 1):
Short answer: fully loaded A321 + fighting strong winter jet stream + transcon westbound = insuffecient range

I worked one of our westbound transcon desks in the last few days, and was able to use best-wind routings that took flights from BWI/PHL and New England up over MI, WI, MN and the Dakotas before coming back towards their various destinations. Flights were saving 20-30 minutes of enroute time, and roughly 2,500 lbs. of fuel by doing so....

[Edited 2008-12-18 20:48:13]

User currently offlineQuickmover From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2464 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week ago) and read 2063 times:

How do various airlines decide where to stop for refueling in this scenarios? Do they usually stop early in the flight or near the end of it?

thanks

User currently offlineOPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (4 years 5 months 1 week ago) and read 2054 times:



Quoting Quickmover (Reply 6):
How do various airlines decide where to stop for refueling in this scenarios? Do they usually stop early in the flight or near the end of it?

We usually stop around the mid-point, plus or minus a couple of hundred miles. It also depends upon if we have an airport there too...
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