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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