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Wildly Strong Headwinds Force Boeing 737 to Stop 700 Miles Short for Fuel

• wrycoder 5y ago
  Some bad flight planning, there. You take the jet stream into account when planning the fuel load.
  • iamtedd 5y ago
    No plane can take full cargo and fuel. They may have already known they would need to refuel enroute. The article reads: Of course, these delays are coming right in the thick of the holiday season. Christmas was Saturday, New Years is Friday night, and a lot of people are heading all over the country to visit friends and family. These weather conditions, along with a fresh new COVID variant, are definitely making it tough on airlines. Airlines are having a love/hate relationship with the Jetstream. Flying east to west and having a headwind is causing transcon flights to take 45 mins longer this morning. But, flying east with a tailwind is getting flights to their destination almost an hour early ! pic.twitter.com/VYV5BpnpbS — Damon Lane (@KOCOdamonlane) December 28, 2021
• kashunstva 5y ago
  > … had nearly run its fuel dry. That’s a serious claim about fuel reserves on a commercial flight, but nothing in the article supports the implication that the situation was that dire.