Hundreds of flights at Sea-Tac airport cancelled & delayed due to snow
6 days ago - By Travel and Tourworld
About 300 flights have been cancelled and around 150 more were delayed till Monday morning, Sea-Tac airport due to snow. The problem isn't the runways as they are clear and fully operational. It's all the fluttering snowflakes in the air.
In such a situation, the aircrafts have to be farther apart from each other in the air, which reduces the amount of numbers you can bring in at any typical hour. On a clear, sunny summer day up to 50 aircraft an hour can come in, but with such low visibility on Monday morning, less than 20 planes could make it. Airlines are cancelling hundreds of flights...
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