2022 Christmas meltdown Competition enteries

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invadertim

In my experence, its always my fault.
Well, here we are, the season of pain, misery, dashed hopes and seething fury, it‘s Christmas time!
The 2022 Melty competition seems to be off to a slow start, or perhaps everything is so bad that normally stand out failures seem run of the mill.
Anyhow, put your meltdowns here, because we all love to laugh at the misery of others…
 
SJI was a serious mess (like don't walk through the airport in a uniform mess) until August. Thanksgiving and all the other holidays were smooth. I think the thinkers had a come to Jesus moment in about June. Now weather is starting to use up the already poorly staffed reserve force. Could go either way.

Does an airline automatically win if they cancel a flight and then immediately stop serving the station? Asking for Sun Country.
 
Skåning said:
Oh Alaskan already had an ess show in, you guessed it, Seattle two weeks ago. Because they can't handle the annual winter weather.

www.seattletimes.com

More than 180 flights canceled at Sea-Tac amid Seattle-area snow

As wintry weather blew into the Seattle area, 177 flights arriving at or departing from Sea-Tac were canceled and 436 were delayed as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
www.seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com
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Seattle didn’t do it’s annual “let’s switch up where we de-ice planes” fiasco…I’ve never seen an airport (or city for that manner), that’s so incapable of adequately planning projects.

last year it was the “oh let’s resurface/repaint whole sections of the parking deck! Who cares that it’s during Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays, no one ever travels then”
 
mikecweb said:
We don't have enough freight to have a melt down.
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Our more radical loons have decided that FredEx is "burning furniture", at this point. These are the same people who think that you won't be able to buy diesel fuel next week and that vaccines contain microchips. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our loads are definitely down, but maybe 10-20%. The planes keep zooming past my window, anyway.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Our more radical loons have decided that FredEx is "burning furniture", at this point. These are the same people who think that you won't be able to buy diesel fuel next week and that vaccines contain microchips. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our loads are definitely down, but maybe 10-20%. The planes keep zooming past my window, anyway.
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We'll see how the spring looks. As of now we have more trunk aircraft flying than ever before and of course Atlas still flying for unknown reasons. Someone has to fly to HNL during the day i guess. The rumors are bad, we'll see.
 
mikecweb said:
and of course Atlas still flying for unknown reasons.
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Probably the same reasons they're still flying for us (at least as far as I understand how it works). To wit: They're paid for, already. No sense paying them to fly when they aren't flying. I'm really hoping this pays off in spades for my long call hitch next month. "Oh, hey, Atlas Joes, how's the weather in Haiphong? Things are great here in Louisville, aside from the gunfire! Just a light dusting of free money on the ground."
 
SEA was a gong show during this last snow. I was supposed to one-leg DH to (of course) PHX for an overnight that Wed, early afternoon, to start a 3 day trip. Flight ended up being delayed maybe 5 hrs? Guess who ended up being the FO when we actually did go :)

Other good one was that Friday, landing after a pretty good deal PSP turn. Forecast and ATIS the whole trip down, and trip back, were for SEA to be basic VFR with some -SN later that night. Vis went to like a mile inside the FAF in heavy enough snow to require use of wipers on high. I checked the SPECI right after we landed, and sure enough, those 5/5/5's went to 2/2/1 or something. I know that one was a hard system to forecast properly, at least says cliffmass, but damn, that really escalated quickly! Got a hotel that night even though I was released from reserve because I know how dumb people are in the snow around here. That suspicion was confirmed the next morning, when on a wet but not particularly slick I-5 NB in high 30's/low 40's, I watched a 3 series BMW blowing past everyone in the HOV suddenly crab 90 deg right and Tokyo drift across 5 (maybe it's 6 there?) lanes of traffic, slam full force into the berm on the right shoulder, spin 180 deg, but with continued momentum pushing him up to slide down the guard rail backwards. His car came probably within 2 car lengths of mine as he crossed my lane. Luckily I wasn't driving like an a hole, had really nice traction tires, and could slow appropriately to let him fly by. I imagine he was rolling 5 year old bald summer radials, since nobody else seemed to be having any trouble whatsoever. Classic
 
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///AMG said:
SEA was a gong show during this last snow. I was supposed to one-leg DH to (of course) PHX for an overnight that Wed, early afternoon, to start a 3 day trip. Flight ended up being delayed maybe 5 hrs? Guess who ended up being the FO when we actually did go :)

Other good one was that Friday, landing after a pretty good deal PSP turn. Forecast and ATIS the whole trip down, and trip back, were for SEA to be basic VFR with some -SN later that night. Vis went to like a mile inside the FAF in heavy enough snow to require use of wipers on high. I checked the SPECI right after we landed, and sure enough, those 5/5/5's went to 2/2/1 or something. I know that one was a hard system to forecast properly, at least says cliffmass, but damn, that really escalated quickly! Got a hotel that night even though I was released from reserve because I know how dumb people are in the snow around here. That suspicion was confirmed the next morning, when on a wet but not particularly slick I-5 NB in high 30's/low 40's, I watched a 3 series BMW blowing past everyone in the HOV suddenly crab 90 deg right and Tokyo drift across 5 (maybe it's 6 there?) lanes of traffic, slam full force into the berm on the right shoulder, spin 180 deg, but with continued momentum pushing him up to slide down the guard rail backwards. His car came probably within 2 car lengths of mine as he crossed my lane. Luckily I wasn't driving like an a hole, had really nice traction tires, and could slow appropriately to let him fly by. I imagine he was rolling 5 year old bald summer radials, since nobody else seemed to be having any trouble whatsoever. Classic
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*insert “first time” meme*

give it a couple years and you’ll learn to be sick/fatigued when SEA is having snow events
 
SurferLucas said:
give it a couple years and you’ll learn to be sick/fatigued when SEA is having snow events
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