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Two big aerospace companies ran out of fluid recently. Southwest airlines cancelled basically all their flights from Chicago yesterday because they ran out of D
by tuna-piano 9y ago
Two big aerospace companies ran out of fluid recently. Southwest airlines cancelled basically all their flights from Chicago yesterday because they ran out of Deicing fluid. They can use your same excuse! Something tells me Southwest failed at a much easier task, though.
"Southwest has 'multiple glycol deliveries' scheduled for Monday and expects to resume 'close to normal operations' at Midway, she said."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/11/de-icing-fluid-shortage-forces-southwest-cancel-chicago-flights/327972002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/11/de-icing-flui...
- JshWright 9y agoInteresting, I would have assumed that was a service they just paid the airport for, rather than one the airline handles itself.
- hyder_m29 9y agoSpaceX fluid issue is likely a calculation / estimation error. Southwest fluid issue is likely a logistics failure. I don't see them as related.
- btian 9y agoWell, it's probably a lot easier to store fluid at an airport than on a rocket