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- Amwest2United
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Unique Flight Routings 4-20-23
Weather from Upper Midwest to the Gulf coast is certainly creating some unique flight routings
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- SumChristianus
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Re: Unique Flight Routings 4-20-23
Amwest2United wrote:
And yet --- it's still arriving early! A good showcase of the crazy amount of schedule padding that's common now.
Re: Unique Flight Routings 4-20-23
SumChristianus wrote:Amwest2United wrote:
And yet --- it's still arriving early! A good showcase of the crazy amount of schedule padding that's common now.
Actually, they might have routed farther North anyway, for winds.
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- georgewall42
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Re: Unique Flight Routings 4-20-23
Flew yesterday SFO to BOS. Pilot noted the thunderstorms and that flight time will be longer than normal (about 30 minutes) due to northerly routing via Canada north of Michigan. Turns out they managed to get some favorable winds and made it on time.
Re: Unique Flight Routings 4-20-23
These northerly routing have been pretty common in years past. We call them "CAN Routes" and there are multiple different tracks that the command center can assign to aircraft both east bound and west bound.
Last year they were exceedingly rare as NAV-Canada did not have the staffing to allow this kind of traffic (thank you COVID-era firing of all ATC trainees). This lead to some pretty circuitous routes last year when storms came around. Aircraft from the west coast to east coast being routed up over Michigan in ZMP and then a hard turn south into ZOB's airspace before proceeding eastbound were pretty common. ZYZ wasn't even accepting point-outs. Canada stay in Canada and USA stay in USA was the standard.
Methinks this year the return of Can-routes will be a thing. Potentially even more northernly routings, i.e. up and over to ZWG before turning south, are possible this summer. Staffing levels at the US ARTCCs this summer are going to have an effect on traffic at some point.
Peace
Last year they were exceedingly rare as NAV-Canada did not have the staffing to allow this kind of traffic (thank you COVID-era firing of all ATC trainees). This lead to some pretty circuitous routes last year when storms came around. Aircraft from the west coast to east coast being routed up over Michigan in ZMP and then a hard turn south into ZOB's airspace before proceeding eastbound were pretty common. ZYZ wasn't even accepting point-outs. Canada stay in Canada and USA stay in USA was the standard.
Methinks this year the return of Can-routes will be a thing. Potentially even more northernly routings, i.e. up and over to ZWG before turning south, are possible this summer. Staffing levels at the US ARTCCs this summer are going to have an effect on traffic at some point.
Peace
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