Indeed. Only so many direct flights to JAX from JFK though, so it is what it is. I was hoping to avoid taking 5 fights in a 24+ hour period 
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S/O JFK terminal A/B. Although it was a long ass walk. Updates look good in A, and there’s alot more food options than I remember.
New United terminal at EWR not ready for the big time. Security is a disgrace, clear not operational, half the food options not open at 10:30am. Also the air tram doesn’t go to terminal 1 GTFO
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Departed out of Orlando, and lemme make it clear the security lines have somehow gotten even worse. Absolutely purgatory waiting in that line. Doesn’t help that most of the better options to eat are before security and the options (at least in the United area) are quite middling
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Flew out of there this summer after Disney and could not believe how much that airport sucked.
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I’ve been in the factory in ND that makes them. I tried very hard with no luck (it was being serviced that week) to get them to fly the company jet to pick me up for my trip.
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Colossal fuckup at JFK yesterday.
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Reminiscent of the Tenerife disaster, a plane on its takeoff roll with another plane on the runway. Thankfully ATC and the Delta pilot were on the ball.
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Fuck, glad i didn’t see this before i flew thru there today. Would have been unsettling.
Big difference is at Tenerife, it was foggy, only one overworked controller on duty and no ground radar at an airport not used to the level of traffic it was receiving. An accident was begging to happen under those conditions. Yesterday, it was VMC at a major airport with the normal amount of traffic and ground radar. Haven’t read many details, but it’s not a good look for the controller. It could be pilot error, one flight may have misinterpreted their instructions - but we’ll see what the results of the investigation are.
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must be SOP to cancel the flight
The Delta flight had to go back to the gate for inspection. Slamming on the brakes at that speed puts a lot of stress on the aircraft. They were delayed until this morning, I believe.
The AA flight was able to leave about a half hour after the near miss.
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It’s definitely not a controller fault albeit they might have been able to react a little faster but it is a huge pilot fuck up. They were issued proper instructions and read them back correctly then just didn’t comply with what they read back. That intersection has always been a bit of a bugaboo thru the years but I can’t remember off hand if they’ve installed the runway status lights there that potentially could have been the last second catch all.
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Depending on the speed of the aborted takeoff, a maintenance inspection may have been required, in addition to time needed to let the brakes cool down. Usually with NYC - Caribbean flights, the crew is planned to do the round trip, since it’s under 8 hours and it saves on paying for a hotel. After inspection, the crew might have been legal to go to SDQ but may not have been legal to do the return flight.
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Flew home from Orlando yesterday. Security lines were outrageous. As I finally made my way to the metal detectors and bag check - every bin was looked at for 60-90 seconds in the scanner. Every single one! I had a light backpack (a book, cold meds, glasses, usb cord) and sneakers and it took more than a minute. No shit the lines are outrageous at that pace! For the love of god!
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just go ahead fire MCO into the sun
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Airports seem to have caught up and added security lines but they’re never staffed! At EWR there were literally 15+ machines, 3-4 were open. NOT GOOD PETE!
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Love they think 25k points will take care of it! Add another zero and let’s talk…
Why I fly Delta!
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Absolutely SHOCKED this email didn’t start with “I am stepping down.”
I always felt like head honcho head hopping was standard operating procedure after a screw up like this.
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