American Airlines had 14 aircraft delayed on the tarmac at DFW airport as a result of a minor snowfall in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.  9 of these flights were American Eagle flights and 5 were American Airlines flights.

No doubt American Airlines will moan and groan over this and claim the weather precluded them being able to do anything.  Sorry but when you control 3/4ths of the airport terminal capacity and it isn’t a major storm with lightning, you don’t have many excuses here.

The weather was miserable on that day.  Light to medium rain fell until around the noon hour and then snow fell for several hours following that.  The snow fall didn’t accumulate fast and certainly didn’t completely kill visibility.  Delays such as these at DFW airport on the part of American Airlines just doesn’t compute under most circumstances.  It was possible to disembark people and park aircraft.  It’s notable that Christmas Day actually isn’t even a very heavily traveled day.

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