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Wildly Strong Headwinds Force Boeing 737 to Stop 700 Miles Short for Fuel

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Some bad flight planning, there. You take the jet stream into account when planning the fuel load.

No plane can take full cargo and fuel. They may have already known they would need to refuel enroute. The article reads:

  Of course, these delays are coming right in the thick of the holiday season. Christmas was Saturday, New Years is Friday night, and a lot of people are heading all over the country to visit friends and family. These weather conditions, along with a fresh new COVID variant, are definitely making it tough on airlines.

    Airlines are having a love/hate relationship with the Jetstream. Flying east to west and having a headwind is causing transcon flights to take 45 mins longer this morning. But, flying east with a tailwind is getting flights to their destination almost an hour early ! pic.twitter.com/VYV5BpnpbS

    — Damon Lane (@KOCOdamonlane) December 28, 2021

> … had nearly run its fuel dry.

That’s a serious claim about fuel reserves on a commercial flight, but nothing in the article supports the implication that the situation was that dire.

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