A United Airlines plane seen on the gate at Chicago OHare International airport (ORD)on October 5, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Do not believe bad weather is the rationale your United Airlines flight is delayed? The airline will now text you reside radar maps to prove it.
Even when it’s brilliant and sunny, a thunderstorm tons of of miles away can still disrupt your flight.
The Federal Aviation Administration can issue ground stops, which prevent traffic from departing for a certain airport in order that those facilities do not get overloaded.
Bad weather may force flights not only to depart late but to take longer routes to avoid it, delaying arriving aircraft. Thunderstorms can crop up suddenly and are harder to predict than larger systems, resembling winter storms and hurricanes. Delays can occasionally cascade, leaving planes and crews out of position.
United said on Wednesday that it’s using generative artificial intelligence to send travelers links to live radar maps, provided by flight-tracking platform FlightAware, in addition to other flight disruption causes, resembling mechanical issues or airport congestion.
Its technology will likely be put to the test across the July Fourth holiday period, during which United expects to set a record with 5 million people flying between June 28 through July 8, up 7% from last 12 months.
In the primary half of the 12 months, nearly 942,000 U.S. airline flights, or 21.4%, arrived late, barely higher than the 22.3% of flights that arrived late within the year-earlier period, in keeping with FlightAware.
