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, 20216 min read
[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, 20214 min read
[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, 20215 min read
[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, 20214 min read
[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, 20214 min read
[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, 20216 min read
[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, 20213 min read
[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, 20215 min read
[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,...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 17, 20217 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 10, 20215 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 7, 20215 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 3, 20213 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 2, 20214 min read
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...
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Tim Donohue
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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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