Denver Airport Now Open Limited Flights

[Parche]

Denver airport is now open with afternoon flights coming from all over the country
all morning flights were cancelled.
But it is a long process to get all the passengers stuck to their final destinations

This Michael Boyd idiot is an aviation consultant, I find him to be ignorant and wrong
about alot of things, I despise everytime he opens his mouth.



Aviation analyst Michael Boyd criticized the airport's handling of the snowstorm.

"With six runways, not even one can be open within a few hours? There's something wrong at DIA," he said. "Minneapolis doesn't have that problem, Salt Lake doesn't have that problem."

Airport spokesman Steve Snyder said plows were running during the storm, but the snow came fast and winds whipped drifts up to 5 feet high under the wings of grounded planes.

Plow managers expected to have two runways cleared by noon Friday. Other areas that needed to be cleared included deicing areas, taxi areas and stretches of tarmac. Ticket crews, Transportation Security Agency workers and other logistics still had to arranged before the airport could open.

"You can't just turn an airport on with a switch," Snyder said.


Hey Boyd, they got a lot more snow then during normal times you idiot.........

[CurtEastPoint]

The perfect reason we need high-speed rail in the US

Of course, with the car mfrs, oil industry etc in synch with you-know-who, it'll never happen...sadly.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. How good is High-Speed Rail ...

with 2 feet of snow? Can it still operate? At a slower speed?

[hlthe2b]

5. Regular trains run, but Amtrack has derailments...

and is susceptible to snowslides...And that can be a lot worse than being stuck in a nice warm airport...

[karlrschneider]

1. Centennial (KAPA) opened up early this morning. I saw some departures from DEN

at about 1100 MST...

[hlthe2b]

3. What a friggin idiot... Interstate highways across six states closed;

the entire front range was closed down. Denver had 24 inches with 3-5 foot drifts, nearby suburbs got up to 36 inches plus drifting. Pena Blvd was necessarily closed. Now how the hell did he think we'd get staff in or out?

What a damned friggin idiot. You got your 15 minutes of fame. Now, if there is any fairness, we will expose you to ten years of SHAME!

[uppityperson]

4. Has Boyd worked for FEMA?

[northofdenali]

6. I'm glad that jerk doesn't have any say over the airports here.

I'd hate to see him open up runways during severe ice fog.