TheBostonStraggler
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Flying farther south would be insanity. Just because you can't get a flight doesn't mean the actual airports close. Logan probably won't throughout, although they may shut down operations for a time between mid day tomorrow through mid day Tuesday simply because they won't have planes to land or take off because of airline cancellations which are largely preplanned due to not wanting their aircraft or crews at their expense stuck in the midst of a storm.
Again, the storm isn't going to get bad here until mid day tomorrow and into tomorrow night. Schools are closed tomorrow and the state is closing it's offices and asking private employers to consider doing the same. Not because you won't be able to get around at all tomorrow, but because by mid day you won't want to be out in it and they don't want a lot of people other than first responders clogging up the works. The MBTA is still running and has not announced any plans to shut down (although they likely will by mid afternoon). It's not the wind speed that will do the damage here, it's the duration. FWIW the weather channel is on the the background and they just said there are NY area airports (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark) remain open at this time.
I didn't have a flight cancelled then assume the airport must be closed. Fyi, I have about 300 takes offs and 600k flown in the last 4 years so I don't speak from a blowing smoke POV. You name the irrops and I have probably lived it (probably). In this instance I held tix on 2 different airlines (UA and AA) for Sunday (into JFK) and with multiple changes all Saturday night and Sunday morning (and tried other airlines). It ended up Sunday morning flights were cancelled across the board for anything landing post 7pm (at least for takeoffs from my home airport): AA didn't do the cancellations today/Sunday until 10am, UA was on Saturday, don't know when others followed suit. Tried BWI, PHL, JFK, EWR, IAD, anywhere that I could get a rental and make the drive to central NJ. Bottom line, for me, if I wasn't on a flight that took off prior to 9am, I was out of luck (meaning I was out of luck). Sucked because on Friday I had moved up my original itinerary from Monday to Sunday (to a different airline) hoping to beat the possibility of the cancellations.
With that said, absolutely, FAA/ATC will open/close/limit as they see conditions allow. If conditions have not gotten too bad with crosswind/slick runway, the airport may remain open. And of course each airline's operations will have multiple factors that go into their decisions for large amounts of cancellations. But when you see a very wide swath of airlines cancelling everything or almost everything? That is worthy of suggesting the Patriots plane will likely have to divert -- even with a "it won't be as bad as suspected and won't be until tomorrow' forecast.
But with that said (not to turn this into Flyertalk), if you or anyone hears of Logan opening up for operations on a wide basis, let me know. My plans now have me needing to get into Logan by Wednesday evening.
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