Originally posted by chongo:
If all the flights are full coming back how do you get them back?
You need to send more flights. However with a Huricane coming, not to many pilots/airlines are going to want to fly there until afterwards.
Another factor was the airports. Since power was lost, the airports were literally in the dark. No runway lights, and no towers to help the planes in. The pilots had to land planes the old-fashioned way...by hand and know-how.
So...try and land/take off just with basic radio communication and using pilot judgment with a Boeing or Air Bus at his hands.
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