Tim Donohue
Plowing 650 acres? Spraying 1 million gallons of deicing fluid? Our winter operations explainer.
While snow-lovers lament the late start to winter across much of the US, you'll find relief among at least one demographic: aviation...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 27, 2021
- 6 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Sunday Nov 28 update
We're back with refined delay predictions for air travel tomorrow! As we discussed yesterday, airlines and airports are set to face their...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 26, 2021
- 4 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Sunday Nov 28 first look
We hope readers enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations! If you flew somewhere on Wednesday, you participated in the busiest air travel...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 23, 2021
- 5 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Wednesday Nov 24 update
We're back to discuss the latest weather forecast and its implications for air travel tomorrow; if you didn't read our first look, you...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Wednesday Nov 24 first look
We pick up our Thanksgiving coverage focused on Wednesday. We've anchored our passenger volume expectations to last year's TSA throughput...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Sunday Nov 21 update
Yesterday, we surveyed 12 airports in our first look at Sunday travel - today we're back to dive a little deeper on 5 airports. Just to...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 19, 2021
- 6 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Sunday Nov 21 first look
We're keeping a curious eye on Newark (EWR) today, where they're landing Runway 29 as we predicted was possible. Otherwise, we're...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Friday Nov 19 update
We're back to adjust our Friday disruption predictions for the latest weather forecasts. If you haven't done so yet, we'd encourage you...
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Tim Donohue
- Nov 17, 2021
- 5 min
[Thanksgiving 2021] Friday Nov 19 first look
We kick off our Thanksgiving 2021 coverage focused on Friday's flying. Travel behaviors are liable to have changed since last year,...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 17, 2021
- 7 min
TBFM, TMI, GDP, GS, AFP, BOSOX, MIT, CTOP, ZNY? Unpacking the FAA's traffic management toolbox.
This is the third explainer in a trio that makes up an air traffic 101 of sorts. If you haven't read the first two blogs, we'd encourage...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Updated: Dear Jack Benefit Concert (PHL)
The latest weather forecast is out and we've returned to glean what it might mean for delays tomorrow and Saturday (tl;dr delays remain...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
First look: Dear Jack Benefit Concert (PHL)
We're back with our second disruption outlook, this time examining late week flying into Philadelphia with an eye towards Andrew...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 7, 2021
- 5 min
How does a reduction in airport capacity create delays?
We'd left off at having explained what airport capacity is and how it varies. In our disruption outlooks, we've also referenced the...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
NYC Marathon inbound travel - 3Nov update
As promised, we're back to discuss the latest weather forecast (it's improving!) and provide some more specific delay estimates (they're...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
NYC Marathon inbound travel - first look
We're excited to issue our first disruption outlook, especially because it's relatively favorable! As we build our deep learning...
Tim Donohue
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
What does airport capacity mean? And what factors affect it?
You can think of an airport's capacity as the supply of available landing or takeoff slots. A slot can only be used for a landing or...
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