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Atlanta Airport Delays

January 11, 2011 by · Comments Off on Atlanta Airport Delays 

Atlanta Airport Delays, Flights were essentially frozen in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for days because of snow, and the state of emergency was issued in Georgia.

Parts of Atlanta have received up to five inches of snow, which is very rare for the region.

Four of the five runways at Atlanta airport are open Tuesday morning, but the city roads are still bad, and it was difficult for airport employees to go to work.

“We are told that our flight was canceled, there are no other flights because of weather, and the sooner they could come back to the house is in one day,” said Dave Watkins, whose trip home to Hawaii after visiting Walt Disney World includes a connecting flight in Atlanta. “So we will not be home at night” until tomorrow instead of this afternoon. “Wife of Dave, Satoko, was not too concerned when the couple arrived home. “Unlike him, I did not have to work tomorrow,” she said. But there is a glimmer of relief Tuesday.

AirTran said it plans to resume operations, but with a greatly reduced flight schedule. Six of the nine flights AirTran Tuesday from Orlando were still on schedule by 8 pm

Delta said it would receive four flights to Orlando on Tuesday. However, the airline said it still has at least 1,400 cancellations planned nationally.

Flight delays expected to continue through Tuesday and maybe Wednesday.

The winter storm expected to move up the East Coast, creating problems for passengers getting in and out of airports highest on the east coast later in the week.

Atlanta Airport

January 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Atlanta Airport 

Atlanta Airport, Governor-elect Nathan Deal canceled all around its opening ceremonies tomorrow because of the time scheduled during the winter. (Photo by Susanna Capelouto)
Storm warnings of winter in the South are causing flight cancellations and longer lines at grocery stores in the Atlanta area. Several inches of snow forecast to fall overnight also affect the plans for the inauguration of the new governor of Georgia.

Hundreds of flights in and out of the Atlanta airport have been canceled in anticipation of the storm, which should make the conditions of snow and ice.

Grocery stores have good business people provisions of bread and batteries. And former member of Congress and the Republican governor elected Nathan Deal is scaling back the celebration of his inauguration

We will limit activities on Monday to all activities necessary to the inauguration itself. We cancel all other ceremonies.

These include a prayer service the morning and the Inaugural Ball in the evening. Deal is asking people to stay home and watch his inauguration afternoon on television instead.

Source: http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/01/09/deal-cancels-inaugural-ball

Logan Airport

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Logan Airport 

Logan Airport, Precipitation events and responsibilities of year-end holiday at work or school leaving too little time for shopping gifts, and they end up at the airport, hours of a family reunion, with gifts to buy yet.

Fortunately for them, these days Logan Airport is very similar to a center where the planes coming to land. There are high-end stores for dads who want fussy gadgets fancy frills stores full of scented soaps, soft sweaters and that the mother may well be – you hope.

And the greedy young brothers and sisters or nephews and nieces, there are always stuffed lobster gummies shaped lobster, T-shirts with lobsters on them.

Do workers in the shops at the airport said Thursday that some customers are frantically hunting for last minute gifts.

Walseman Kate, 25, works in L’Occitane, a store in Terminal A, which sells lotions and soaps upscale. She said they see many clients who want to buy something quick while they are racing to theft, and should be fit enough in their small suitcases.

Many customers’ instructions amounted to “I need something that looks good. Box and go there,” she said.

The store sees many men come to buy girlfriends, wives and mothers, often with no idea what products or perfumes for women in their lives, etc…

“I do not know her well,” is a common refrain, said Walseman, “even when they were married 30 years.”

A few yards from Brookstone, 25, resident of Cambridge Eric Lonstein knew what to get one of the women in his life. He had just bought her younger sister a pop-up mini speaker for a digital music player.

Lonstein is Jewish, but his family celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas. He was headed to a family reunion and said he was almost done shopping for holiday gifts.

“I may be a bit more for my aunt and uncle, but I finished most of it,” he said.

A shop assistant said that the accessories are a big seller iPad this year, but even bigger is a small remote controlled helicopter that still attracts the curious when they demonstrated in the store. The store had sold about 30 between the opening 6:00 and 14 pm on Wednesday. The low gear and go 30 each, or two and 50.

Doug Boutchard, 56, is one of those who stopped to watch the helicopter take off, fly a couple of feet, and crashed in a display of other goods. Boutchard, who lives in Worcester, said he was just looking around the store Brookstone until his flight to Indianapolis, where his brother lives.

“Actually, I did all my Christmas shopping before Halloween,” Boutchard said, “but I take a perverse please look at everybody frothing over the next month and a half.”

Atlanta Airport

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Atlanta Airport 

Atlanta Airport, (AP) – A severe winter storm that has a rare white Christmas in the South was barreling up the East Coast on Sunday morning; forecasters are predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow in Washington and blizzard conditions New York and New England.

Airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Sunday in the Northeast corridor, with more likely to come as the storm intensifies.

Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency Sunday morning or Saturday evening. As road crews North Carolina tried to clear roads snowy and icy, the Mid-Atlantic officials spent Christmas Day preparing for a foot of snow, plunging temperatures and winds.

“Our concern is tomorrow, it will become much colder,” said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell the Weather Channel on Saturday night. “Winds gusting to 45 mph will cause blowing snow and that will cause the worst … and we urge extreme caution in travel. Try to go early and if you do not have to travel will not. ”

Continental Airlines canceled 250 departures Sunday from Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City. United Airlines announced Saturday that it had canceled dozens of departures on Sundays from Newark, Philadelphia, New York LaGuardia and JFK, Boston and other airports. AirTran has also canceled flights, like Southwest Airlines, often in or out of Washington Dulles, Baltimore and Newark.

Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins said most of the cancellations were for the afternoon, and flights from New York and Boston would also be likely to be affected. More decisions will be taken on Sunday morning.

Most carriers have been the abolition of fees for time change in the affected areas and urging passengers to make changes on their websites.

The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system, which will develop off the coast of North Carolina on Sunday morning and strengthen into a storm as it moves northeast, according to the National Weather Service .

A blizzard warning was issued in New York City for Sunday and Monday with a forecast of 11 to 16 centimeters of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times. As much as 18 inches could fall on the shore of New Jersey, with gusts over 40 mph. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow from Sunday 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Monday. A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.

Sunday morning, winter storm warnings covered northern Georgia, the Carolinas, Washington, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and eastern parts of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. Winter weather advisories were in effect for eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, West Virginia and North West Virginia.

The system gave Carolina its first white Christmas in decades. Columbia, SC, held its first Christmas snow significantly since meteorological records were first kept in 1887.

In Asheville, North Carolina, the Meteorological Service reported about an inch of snow had fallen an hour Saturday. As much as 10 inches could fall by Sunday morning, which would break the previous Christmas Day record of 5.4 inches set in 1969.

North Carolina Lt. Governor Walter Dalton declared a state of emergency Saturday.

North Carolina Highway Patrol said Saturday night that most roads in and around Asheville have been covered or partially covered with snow and ice. Emergency management spokeswoman Julia Jarema said soldiers in the two counties west dozen 350 calls answered in 18 hours on Saturday. Most were wrecks.

Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne, the spokesman for the Upstate South Carolina Highway Patrol said Saturday night that the snow began to cover the roads, but there were fewer accidents than there would be a normal night.

“Everyone at home,” he said. “It’s Christmas. They are heeding the warnings and stay off the roads.”

In Nashville, some travelers who are planning a trip to a sweet Christmas surprises.

“We hoped that this would be a good day to travel,” said Heather Bansmer, 36, of Bellingham, Washington

She and her husband, Shawn Breeding, 40, had planned to go home on separate flights after a visit to the family of reproduction in Bowling Green, Ky. But flight reproduction thanks to Atlanta was canceled.

The couple intended to spend much of Christmas Day in different airports.

“A white Christmas is not so welcoming,” said Breeding, the couple stood in the lobby of the Nashville airport with their luggage in a cart.

In Pensacola, Florida, Jena Passuti faces a dilemma. The magazine editor, 36, was driving with her husband and two children in Fairfax, Virginia to visit relatives. Saturday afternoon, she worried about how to return home amid the snow.

“Should we leave on Christmas Eve? My children are travelers normally, but if it will take us twice as long, it will be hell,” she said. “Like a white Christmas just like everyone else but I do not want to drive.”

In Washington, the transport ministry spokesman said Karyn LeBlanc few teams would be pre-treating roads on Saturday night if necessary. Approximately 200 pieces of equipment will be deployed on Sunday in anticipation of the snow.

To the north, Delaware and Philadelphia is preparing for up to a foot of snow expected to fall from Sunday to Monday and authorities urged people to avoid traveling if possible.

Hundreds of flights, many thanks to Atlanta had been canceled Saturday. Only a few hundred people milled about the cavernous terminal Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, many of them newcomers from international flights. Passengers were advised Friday when the flights were canceled preventively, although most have not bothered to introduce themselves. Many chairs were empty, restaurants as well.

Some could not help but laugh that flights have been nixed in advance of the straw or the first snowflake fell. Wet snow did not begin until the fall of Atlanta on Saturday afternoon.

“They have canceled hundreds of flights and there was not even a drop of rain,” said Stephanie Palmer, who killing time with his friend Ibrahim Soumano was waiting for a flight to Mali. “It makes no sense.”

Southern cities have seen varying amounts of snow, as they were in the path of the storm.

The Nashville area has an inch or so of snow on Christmas Eve. There was also snow in northern Alabama.

Saturday, 4 to 5 inches of snow had fallen for several hours in Bowling Green, Ky., according to the weather service. Louisville is about an inch.

The Air Transport Association was expecting to 44.3 million people on U.S. flights between December 16 and January 5 – up 3 percent over the same period a year ago but still below the Travel volume before the recession. The average ticket price and was 421, up 5 percent.

AAA predicts holiday travel together to increase by about 3 percent this year, with more than 92 million people intend to go over 50 miles by 2 January. Over 90 percent said they would be driving.

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko in Washington; Page Ivey in Columbia, Karen Hawkins in Chicago and Verena Dobnik Warren Levinson in New York, David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; to Michelle Price Phoenix, Dylan Lovan in Louisville; Pallat Leonard and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta and Mark Pratt in Boston.

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