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canyonwalker) wrote2023-04-27 07:55 am
canyonwalker) wrote2023-04-27 07:55 am
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Off to Phoenix. Aaaand it's Delayed.
Phoenix late April travelog #1
38,000' over Texas - Thursday, 27 Apr 2023, 9am
This morning we awoke early, alarms ringing at 5am, for our fligth to Phoenix. We had a 7:25am departure out of New Orleans. I say had because by the time we returned the rental car and checked our flight status....
...Our flight was already delayed.
It's surprising to see a delay this early in the morning. I've noted before that Southwest usually has delays later in the day but not in the morning. That's partly because they don't do overnight flights. In fact they use the overnight period when no planes are flying to reboot their systems. Yes, they do preventive reboot of their entire IT system every single night. They stated this in the news recently after their latest operational meltdown. While there are all kinds of problems with the situation that makes that necessary, one benefit is that usually first-of-the-morning flights run fine as nothing's had time to go wrong yet. Usually. Edit: it wasn't a first-of-the-morning flight. Our aircraft already made a trip from Austin to New Orleans.
Well, now we're in the air. Our delay at one point looked to be as bad as 30 minutes, but amounted to just under 15 minutes when we left. I don't even mind terribly as we were getting in to Phoenix plenty early anyway. We'll see what's ready when we get there.
38,000' over Texas - Thursday, 27 Apr 2023, 9am
This morning we awoke early, alarms ringing at 5am, for our fligth to Phoenix. We had a 7:25am departure out of New Orleans. I say had because by the time we returned the rental car and checked our flight status....
...Our flight was already delayed.
It's surprising to see a delay this early in the morning. I've noted before that Southwest usually has delays later in the day but not in the morning. That's partly because they don't do overnight flights. In fact they use the overnight period when no planes are flying to reboot their systems. Yes, they do preventive reboot of their entire IT system every single night. They stated this in the news recently after their latest operational meltdown. While there are all kinds of problems with the situation that makes that necessary, one benefit is that usually first-of-the-morning flights run fine as nothing's had time to go wrong yet. Usually. Edit: it wasn't a first-of-the-morning flight. Our aircraft already made a trip from Austin to New Orleans.
Well, now we're in the air. Our delay at one point looked to be as bad as 30 minutes, but amounted to just under 15 minutes when we left. I don't even mind terribly as we were getting in to Phoenix plenty early anyway. We'll see what's ready when we get there.