Aviation_Weather_Delays

Aviation Weather Delays Weather Delays. We seem to have heard so much more about them in recent years. Is the weather getting worse' Are the newer planes less able to stand the rough weather than the planes of the past' Maybe travelers just complain more What is the reason for the 70% increase in flight delays and 23% increase in cancellations blamed on the weather since 1978' Are the airlines just using weather as a catch all to cover other problems and keep themselves covered under the statemeant ”you cant control the weather”. I will attempt to answer these questions along with a few others in this report but, the question that cannot be escaped from beginning to the end seems to be Is the weathe rreally that bad'” Let’s start with why have the flight delays increased so much since 1978.It all seemed like a good idea at the time, and for many, it still is one of a short list of good ideas to come from the Federal Government Airline Deregulation . This allowed for more competion between airlines in more ways than ever before not only could they compete for customers on strictly a customer service stand point but also for the price of fares aviation, weather, flight, air, traffic, system, passengers, off, control, systems, storms, one, now, flights, delays, crew, time, new, ground, around, along, take, should, scheduled, pacific, increase, effect, airways, airlines, years, warming, tropical, today, south, question, planes, plane, over, much, just, comes, clear, airline, aircraft, able, york, world, wont, waters, two, storm