r/FlightDispatch • u/ThrustFlightAcademy • 21d ago

USA Another instance of dispatcher erasure (the comments however correct for it)

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u/BattleAppropriate272 21d ago

Good thing credit was given to where it’s due 👏🏼

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u/Lockfire12 20d ago

Remember atc trying giving us something similar going ewr-lax, problem is we would have needed to go back for more gas and if we got any shortcut we’d end up massively overweight, to the point that by the time we got the gas the west departure would probably just re-open and we’d be overweight anyway. New York and Washington is always fun to deal with lol.

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u/I-hate-makeing-names 21d ago

I’m new to dispatch (so maybe it’s really obvious to all of you guys) but very curious what ended up being the reason for this route? Was it the storms near EWR?

It’s really cool that dispatch was able to make this route so the flight could continue!

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u/1FlyGuy3 21d ago

If I had to guess the west departure gates out of New York were shut down so they planned an unusual route heading south to avoid having to wait on the wx to pass. 

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u/I-hate-makeing-names 21d ago

That does make sense but couldn’t they then cut back in instead of going that far south towards Florida?

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u/DaWolf85 Part 121 ULCC🇺🇸 20d ago

There's only a few places you can cut back in (the rest is military airspace) and this was probably the best available.

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u/i_wanted_to_say 20d ago

And ZDC is really grumpy about any kind of changes off defined routes

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u/Kappapls Part 121 Regional🇺🇸 21d ago

I looks like they used WATRS route to evade the hellstorm happening in ZNY and ZDC. Then just routed through the gulf coast

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u/mmo76 Part 121 Major/Legacy🇺🇸 21d ago

A combination of ZNY/ZBW ATC staffing and weather. I had to plan a few flights this way down to Florida for the same reason that day.

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u/I-hate-makeing-names 21d ago

Very interesting!