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Re: What was up with the flights this weekend?
In the summer it's always thunderstorms. These are localized and mostly affect spokes rather than hubs. When they hit the hubs, it screws up whole airlines. In this case a big, long-lasting thunderstorm kept planes out of Raleigh-Durham on Saturday night. Some came in quite late, after the storm began to pass. Pilots are required to spend six or eight (I forget which) hours "off" from work between flights. This accounts for "waiting for the crew to show up" stuff you sometimes hear. At the spokes, there are often no spare crews. The one that was supposed to come in at 6pm and instead came at 1am can't fly at the following 6am. Between absent planes and waiting for crews to show up, lots of people at RDU missed planes or connections yesterday. This severely inconvenienced the people behind the counters and essentially broke the automated easy-check-in screens. Those just sent people back into the lines.
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