Originally Posted by
Babyjetdvr
Anybody know whats going on at JB? I just saw on the news they are suspending ops 5pm tonight, through 10am tmrw in BOS and all NY airports.. I've been on VAC, so I've been a bit out of touch. I didn't think the wx was that bad.. Mostly rain down in BOS and NY, some freezing rain up in my neck woods in NH.. Nothing extraordinary.
Same thing that happened in 2007. Apparently they didn't fix the problems and hoped it would never happen again.
Basically they lose track of all the crewmembers and have no idea where they are or if they are legal. In 2007 they even lost some airplanes. (There was a 320 in HOU for 3 days that they couldn't find)
So what they do to fix it is shut everything down for 17 hours then they know that everyone is legal to fly and they can find out where they are. In 2007 they had people calling every crew member and writing in a paper notebook where crews were. They couldn't even rely on the hotel lists because after 4 days most crewmembers just went home on OAL's. They will blame it on bad weather and the new 117 rules when in reality they have horrible systems in place and even worse people managing the systems.