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Originally Posted by AirlinesMustPay
Remember too we are talking about unusual weather conditions, e.g. snowstorms, so no one was taking off for hours.
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YOU are talking about local weather. Kate Hanni's own situation was just the opposite. Her plane was headed to Dallas, but diverted to Austin and sat. It could have just as easily sat in the origin city.
And to answer you other question, you can't federally regulate what God does with the weather. Look at it like this - Let's say in Dallas they have 30 arrivals in an hour. (I don't know what they actually get, but just for this example...) The airport shuts down for a storm for 1 hour. Now it opens back up. Now you have 60 planes ready to get in there. But they have to be spaced, so that backs things up. But it also means it you don't get going, you will have to wait for a later space. And they can't just say that the planes that were scheduled first get to go in first, because some of the on schedule flights are already in the air. Unless you plan on diverting them, anyway. But then that creates a bigger mess.
The problem is this is a much more complex problem than what it seems, and obviously Kate Hanni doesn't understand even a fraction of the whole big picture.