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Old 03-20-2007 | 11:25 AM
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I was in the back yesterday on a flight and the pilot said "Philadelphia is using an east operation this evening, though the winds don't support it. This resulted in a lot of extra vectoring from ATC to get runway 9 right and now we are holding short of 9L to get to the gate."

Plenty of words that no passengers had a clue about, I'd bet:
-East operation
-Vectoring
-ATC
-9L
-9R

I would have said, "When the winds at Philadelphia are like they are tonight, the airport slows down. We might have to wait a few minutes more than usual on the ground after landing."

The pilot went on to give the temperature and dewpoint in celcius, the ceiling in feet and that "the computer says we will be 5 minutes late."
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