I'm just curious what your airline is doing with your crews and the hurricane. Frontier has chosen to leave crews there with the promise of "rations" that aren't going to make it.

How are the other airlines handling this?

 

Cancelling flights.

 

Went through Denton Tx. about 4 hour ago.
Everts Cargo must have moved their MD80, and a EMB120 up there.

 

What do you want them to do?

I think spirit moved crew's at the "long" location to the "short" locations (higher ground). I think though it was for selfish reasons to make it easier to get flights completed instead of having crew's stuck at the long location with a moat around them.

 

I can't speak for the smaller airlines but wrt to my airline when there is a large wx event (hurricane/snow storm) bearing down on a hub they will run ops up to a certain point then get everyone (airplane wise) out of town.

For example: bizzard headed for NYC, wx people say the crap will hit the fan at 8 pm Friday and will snow for 30 hours. The last flights in/ out will be about 5-7 pm Friday. At that time at an airport like lagarbage there may be 1 or 2 planes per airline left on the ground so snow can be easily removed. Basically get everyone away from the wx event then when it's gone send them back in. In the case above by Sunday morning the first flights will start arriving and by the end of the day Sunday or early Monday a regular sked will be restored.

The only down side is that there are many CXd flights so all flights for a few days after will be fuller than full as they clear the backlog of stuck pax.

IMO this method is the lesser of the evils. Many years ago we'd try to run as much as possible thru a wx event. You wind up with airplanes and crew stuck everywhere. Crews with planes but times out. Crews that can work but their plane diverted inbound so no jet available. Crews stuck in whatever hotel. It would take days just to put the sked back together.

 

FAA closed IAH mid morning Sun 8/27. Reopen planned Noon Mon 8/28.

HOU (Hobby) closed early morning Sun 8/27. Reopen planned 8 am Weds 8/30.

 

So this happened today...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/sou...ort/index.html


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I'm curious who told you this lie. I checked and we have zero crews in IAH right now.

This is a serious accusation, and during this period of negotiations, I suggest you remove your claim unless you have evidence to back it up.

 

You are 100% correct. The FO I talked to is in Austin. Not IAH. My mistake.

 

NK has crews in IAH