2022 Christmas meltdown Competition enteries
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Wardogg
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Fire on board a JetBlue plane forces the evacuation of more than 160 passengers at New York's JFK airport | CNN
A fire on board a JetBlue Airways plane forced more than 160 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, fire department officials said.
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Cory Trevor
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just got this on my flight plan for today. What the hell are you controllers doing up there
Stone Cold
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At least they put it’ll be a Charlie Foxtrot on arrival. So there’s that…
NovemberEcho
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This is the result of years of FAA squandering funding on things like Notice to Air Mission rather than infrastructure upgrades
fholbert
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Notice to Air Mission
Line Up and Wait
Changing the hijack code to 7500
Aviation is going to h#ll.
NovemberEcho
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When did the 7500 become a thing? Plus it makes the rhyme scheme easier to remember
Seven fife he’s got a knife
Seven six radio needs a fix
Seven seven he’s going to heaven
Wardogg
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I've always used 75(Hi Jack) 76(Can't talk now) 77(I'm on fire).
Damn I’ve never heard that rhyme.
fholbert
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Shortly after I checked out in my first ATC facility. Late 1976, it changed from 3100 to 7500.
Before that we got a lot of false hits when pilots dialed through 3100.
BEEF SUPREME
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The last thing I heard before going into Sitka was that they were parking aircraft on taxiways.
Everyone who diverted to FAI had a really bad time I imagine.
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fholbert
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Never needed it.
I still spell Arithmetic with a 2nd grade rhyme.
A Rat In Toms House Might Eat Toms Ice Cream. You heard it here first!
NovemberEcho
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That doesn’t rhyme at all
roundout
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Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Or reheating fish in the breakroom microwave.
Kingairer
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It was their turn.
knot4u
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What was the reason for the labor shortage over the weekend? Was it the logistics of flying commuting flight crews to their bases, were the bases snowed in and nothing was moving including ground crew? It's really weird how airplanes seem to break on a holiday. I remember once I was on call on Christmas Day for the one who shall not be named and a LR35 came in for basically a quick turn and a crew change and the new crew decided the transfer pumps weren't working so they couldn't fuel it up, grounded the airplane and went home. I got there about 40 minutes later and found out that they were full of •, the airplane was fine. The captain that wrote it up was fired the following business day. Another lovely X-Mas morning involved a hawker 800 with an apparent dead battery, I think they thought if they called for MX they'd be released to go home, when I got down to the ramp in about a half hour and both batteries came online they both claimed to be idiots and started discussing the gloves they were wearing, I wasn't wearing gloves, it was Van Nuys. Aviation is 24/7, I understand hating it but if you just opt to not go in when lots other people are going in and even more are depending on you I shake my head. Don't ever ask why pilots these days don't get more professional respect.
Minuteman
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SOUTHWEST COMING FROM BEHIND FOR THE CHIKAN DINNER!!
“Southwest cancels more than 2,800 flights in a 'full-blown meltdown'
Southwest canceled more than 2,800 flights by 6:55 p.m. ET Monday — more than half of its schedule for the day, according to flight tracker FlightAware. The disruptions add to chaos that has left people stranded at airports across the country, many of them with little idea of when they can get home or where their bags are.
The number of canceled flights for Southwest is more than 10 times higher than for Delta, which had the second-most cancelations by a U.S. airline with 265 flights called off. Other airlines have also ordered large-scale cancellations in the past week.”
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“Southwest cancels more than 2,800 flights in a 'full-blown meltdown'
Southwest canceled more than 2,800 flights by 6:55 p.m. ET Monday — more than half of its schedule for the day, according to flight tracker FlightAware. The disruptions add to chaos that has left people stranded at airports across the country, many of them with little idea of when they can get home or where their bags are.
The number of canceled flights for Southwest is more than 10 times higher than for Delta, which had the second-most cancelations by a U.S. airline with 265 flights called off. Other airlines have also ordered large-scale cancellations in the past week.”
Massive Southwest Airlines disruption leaves customers stranded and call centers swamped
Last week's winter weather travel mess is lingering like a vicious hangover into this week -- and the headaches are migraine-proportioned for Southwest Airlines, its CEO Bob Jordan and most of all its frustrated passengers on Monday.
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