Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Thursday reiterated that the EDCA sites with the United States will be used only for the defense efforts of the Philippines.
york today. bwi, dulles, dca, all the way to philadelphia, newark, jfk, all under the possibility of ground stops as the day goes on. yesterday was really a banner day for delays and cancellations in the u.s. and we know that when these happen, there is really a cascading effect. more than 5,000 delays nationwide yesterday. today, so far, just checked flight aware. we ve seen 470 nationwide. about 50 cancellations so far. but the day is still pretty young. think back to yesterday. i want you to look at this incredible video that a passenger took as this plane that he was on was descending in to newark. he said you could smell that thick red smoke from the seat he was sitting in. we ll see as today develops, there could be even more delays, more cancellations on par or higher than yesterday. phil? poppy? so you re a pilot. i m not. i m blissful in my ignorance
so if planes are flying on instruments only, they have to maintain a further distance from one another. they can t keep visual separation airplane to airplane. therefore, the faa puts in place these restrictions to try and essentially and elongate the conga line, to make sure the airplanes aren t too bunched up to one another, making an unsafe condition. this is really to try and keep things safe. the faa doesn t necessarily cancel or delay flights. that s really up to the airlines, although the new york area has some of the worst visibility according to the aviation weather reports now. at newark, the visibility s only about a half mile. that really does sort of pile on and make arrivals into airports more and more complicated. and it s not just the new york area. we re seeing this at national airport, the d.c. area, dulles, bwi. they could also see impacts from this smoke haze, as well. totally unprecedented, as well. we re seeing it in philadelphia, boston, jfk also having issues.
the pilot said, hey, you know, we ve got low visibility, but we re still able to land. the flight operations at dca. i know at some airports there have been ground stops for a period of time. explain to folks how much this affects operations. doesn t stop them entirely, but we re going to see the ripple effect here not just in the areas where the smoke is, but this is actually having a nationwide impact on flights. the ground stop at laguardia just ended. it switched to a ground delay how long was the ground stop? the ground stop was in place until about 2:00 p.m. how many hours top of the hour. lasted about an hour. the ground stop is for a while. i m looking at the numbers from the faa, average delay 119 minutes, gjust shy of two hours. that s flights bound to laguardia. departing laguardia delay good 30 minutes according to the faa. is the goal to put more space? the issue is the visibility.
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