✈Aviation

a Pacific-coast schedule to buffer, a recovering Tokyo network, and near-zero visibility on the Arabian Peninsula

The disruption has mostly happened; the rebuild and the buffer are the work. Tokyo's network is recovering as the system transitions offshore and goes extratropical about Wednesday, with the residual problem being ground access through landslide zones rather than the airspace. The Pacific-coast Mexican airports buffer schedules today against a 130-mph hurricane that turns west-north-west tonight, with rain of 4 to 8 inches, locally 12, the operative figure rather than the category. Jazan, Asir, Makkah and Madinah carry near-zero visibility in blowing dust and rain through about Sep 25, which is a minima problem, not a wind one. Italy runs a widespread yellow under an Atlantic trough. In the United States the exposure is the ordinary one — convective and flood-driven ground delay on a marginal severe day. Who owns the call: a network operations centre choosing between a pre-cancel and a rolling delay.

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