Flights to Orlando cancelled?

[CAROLINE4]

Just watched the news on Daybreak and saw the storm heading to the East coast! they didnt mention Orlando flights being cancelled just New York and Boston but i would imagine it will effect Orlando flights as well? good luck to all those going over for half term! xxx

 

[Pootle]

I doubt it will affect any flights as far south as Orlando. The BA's website shows cancelled flights and they are mostly New York, Boston, Washington etc, as you would expect.

I would think the only impact might be that there won't be a spare seat on the Florida flights with people desperate to get to the east USA trying to re-route.

 

[CAROLINE4]

oh thats great news for everyone travelling! i thought cause the plane skirts new york area flying down to Orlando it may be effected! glad it wont!

 

[RDP]

Just checked VA website, similar to BA, only north east coast affected.

 

[bazzanoid]

oh thats great news for everyone travelling! i thought cause the plane skirts new york area flying down to Orlando it may be effected! glad it wont!

they will be following heavy weather protocol - diverting off the main flight path to avoid it.

There's an upside: the flight should be quicker as they will be more direct to florida.
There's a downside (and the reason they don't do this all the time): More time over the water.

 

[bazzanoid]

This morning's flights out of gatwick to orlando, las vegas, and tampa are all unaffected at the time of writing(barring a 10 minute delay on the vegas one, presumably because of a hurricane diversion)

 

[orangetiggs]

Most flights to orlando follow the curve of the earth being over to new york and down as thats the quicker route but in this instance i would say straight over atlantic to avoid storms but may be a little longer

 

[paul_toria96]

More time in Disney then, thoughts are with those that were off to New York etc and those that live there

 

[CAROLINE4]

More time in Disney then, thoughts are with those that were off to New York etc and those that live there

Yes i have just been saying to my sister(lisax) that i would not know what to do if that happened here! what about the people who have knowhere to go to what will they do?
Hopefully its travelling slow enough for there to be no casualties!
xxxx

 

[orangetiggs]

We got delayed here by a few days in 2004 becuase of the hurricane, we moved the whole holiday, we booked with virgin holidays so they just moved it for us. We also hot evacuated from st petes the same holiday due to ankther hurricane and they took us back to orlando and stayed in the world centre marriott which was lovely

 

[Pootle]

Yes i have just been saying to my sister(lisax) that i would not know what to do if that happened here! what about the people who have nowhere to go to what will they do?
Hopefully its travelling slow enough for there to be no casualties!
xxxx

That is one of the benefits of using a Tour Operator - it is their problem. I always worry when folk recommend that the d-i-y route is best - if you are travelling with young children and/or are not confident travellers, there is a lot of comfort in booking a package.

We are independent travellers and have had all sorts of things happen over the years but have always been confident we could make our own arrangements if/when things go wrong.

 

[disneyholic family]

we were supposed to be in new york on tuesday for my mom's doctor's appointment, but our flight for tuesday morning has been cancelled by delta (we got the email yesterday afternoon).

I was able to cancel our hotel in NYC and our tickets to the book of mormon.

now we have to try to reschedule the appointment before we leave the US.

as for the effects on flights across the atlantic - i imagine the worst impact will be terrible turbulence. we had the worst flight i've ever experienced when we came across - it seemed as if the pilot was having real trouble keeping the plane under control. we were being tossed around like a baby cessna plane.

 

[Mr Stoat]

The Saturday 17:25 Orlando to Gatwick BA flight we were on was an hour late due to re-routing. It routed North to skirt the US coast rather than the more usual oceanic route. The follow on BA flight scheduled for 20:25 was already running 2 hours behind time when we checked in at around 15:00.

I would not expect any direct Orlando flights to be anything other than delayed due to routing problems but anything via the Boston/Washington/Philly/New York is liable to cancellation, somwhere in the region of 5000 flights on the US East Coast are going to get cancelled.

 

[OrlandoMagic]

There does not seem to be any problems with direct flights departing UK heading to Florida.

We are on the BA flight 2037 this Wednesday and I have been tracking it today. It departed on time and is currently due to land 39 mins in front of schedule.

 

[CAROLINE4]

we were supposed to be in new york on tuesday for my mom's doctor's appointment, but our flight for tuesday morning has been cancelled by delta (we got the email yesterday afternoon).

I was able to cancel our hotel in NYC and our tickets to the book of mormon.

now we have to try to reschedule the appointment before we leave the US.

as for the effects on flights across the atlantic - i imagine the worst impact will be terrible turbulence. we had the worst flight i've ever experienced when we came across - it seemed as if the pilot was having real trouble keeping the plane under control. we were being tossed around like a baby cessna plane.

Oh no hope you manage to get sorted!

 

[paulh]

From manchester airport web site

Flights to the USA


Four flights due to depart Manchester this morning to New York (x2), Washington and Philadelphia have been cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Flights from Manchester to Atlanta and Chicago departed as normal.

If you are travelling to the USA in the next few days please check the status of your flight with your airline and check our flight information




Florida flights not affected

Paul

 

[paulh]

Most flights to orlando follow the curve of the earth being over to new york and down as thats the quicker route but in this instance i would say straight over atlantic to avoid storms but may be a little longer

correct the route - aircraft try to follow "great circle" as being the shortest distance between any 2 points on a sphere (earth) when flying down the east coast of the USA they are actually flying quite close to a "great circle" so the straight line on a flat map isn't the shortest on a sphere.
I used to think they flew that route because they were close to land in-case anything happened

Paul

 

[wayneg]

From manchester airport web site

Flights to the USA


Four flights due to depart Manchester this morning to New York (x2), Washington and Philadelphia have been cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Flights from Manchester to Atlanta and Chicago departed as normal.

If you are travelling to the USA in the next few days please check the status of your flight with your airline and check our flight information




Florida flights not affected

Paul

We are going via Chicago on Wednesday so just hope Sandy doesn't take a left turn.

 

[Duck In Blue]

they will be following heavy weather protocol - diverting off the main flight path to avoid it.

There's an upside: the flight should be quicker as they will be more direct to florida.
There's a downside (and the reason they don't do this all the time): More time over the water.

We fly with BA via Tampa tomorrow and the flight today left 2 hours 50 minutes late but is due to land only 1 hour 49 minutes late, I guess this explains it! I'm hoping it's more on time tomorrow

 

[wayneg]

3 day forcast here looks OK for us.
We will be in Chicago at the Wednesday 2pm point, projection says <39mph winds by then.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/031332.shtml?3-daynl?large#contents