Aviation Weather Delays

The weather is delayed. In recent years, we seem to have heard lots of news about them. Is the weather getting worse? Whether a new aircraft can withstand bad weather is more difficult than in the past. Perhaps it is why travelers are complaining about an increase of more than 70% of flight delay and the cancellation has increased by 23% due to the weather since 1978. The airline solves other problems and just uses the weather as a problem to keep saying oneself "You can not control the weather".

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the weather is 69% of all air travel delay. Certainly, aircraft are equipped and designed to take off, landing and fly with all sorts of bad weather, but some weather conditions are more likely to be ground flying than other weather conditions. The biggest problem is always strong wind and freezing rain. In fact, this weather generally leads to delay and cancellation. I know that you may think that everything will be fine in the summer. But that is not the case. It is actually harder for an airplane to fly with hot air, as the air itself becomes denser and takeoff becomes more difficult.

If the flight plan is interrupted due to weather delay, the airline is exempt from providing compensation to passengers. But when is the delay of "weather" really a lag of the weather? It is useful to consider ways to avoid reasonable compensation for inappropriate service by exploiting bad weather, as airlines do not do good to beat customers and sleep with their strollers. Bad weather takes various forms. Even large airports like San Francisco and Chicago O'Hare can cause serious storms. However, due to bad weather, it is common that the airport's throughput decreases, that is, the number of landings or departures that can be handled per minute is reduced. This reduction occurs because traffic controllers have to reduce the use of runways or have to add extra space between consecutive arriving aircraft and departing aircraft.

The aviation industry is particularly vulnerable to climate change, as interference with the weather does not become too large, delay and flight changes occur. "Aircraft traveling time is very limited, and if delayed, it will spoil the entire network," Coffel said. This fall, Hurricane Maria and Ilma caused massive travel turmoil in the Southeast and the Caribbean. Rachel Burbidge, Eurocontrol's Environment and Climate Change Policy Officer, who is working on improving the air traffic management throughout Europe, says: During heavy storms, strong winds can damage the control tower and other equipment, floods can cause floods at airports, docks, underground power facilities and cause power outages.