Originally Posted by
DILLA
So my wife's flight outta DFW-ORD was delayed tonight due to weather, but she told me that UAL flights were leaving on time...
She is flying out on Spirit so I'd assume the radar equipment on their A320's are comparable to UAL's. Could the delay have just been the Captain's decision? ...or do different airlines have different allowable departure minimums?
Thanks for any insight.
ORD has been backed up all afternoon due to Thunderstorms . . . both in the Chicago area and now 50 miles south of ORD. Where we usually run a 96 - 104 arrival rate, I think they were at something like 64 for part of the day -- we just got back to the normal rate within the last couple of hours.
So, I can confirm that there are arrival delays into ORD this evening due to weather. Everyone is trying to catch up. I just checked UAL's website for all of their DFW-ORD flight this afternoon -- 1 cancelled, all the others were/are delayed at least 2 hours. Everyone is delayed into ORD tonight; Spirit, United, American, everyone.