) wrote:

Anybody know what I can expect as a clearance for a flight from OXC to
PHL? How about the return?

A ground delay of 45 minutes to an hour, probably.

Based on my personal experiences as both a pilot of my GA aircraft and
as a passenger through USAirways' new major hub, I have learned to avoid
Philadelphia International at all costs.

Any reason you can't go to Wings (KLOM) or Northeast Philly (KNPE)
instead?

I don't have any advice about the actual route, but if you have to go
to PHL and you receive a long ground hold, change your destination with
clearance to one of the above airports. When you are about 40 nm out,
ask approach if you can change your destination to PHL. I didn't do
this and consequently I sat at Logan airport for almost 90 minutes this
past summer.

A flight instructor I know was also going to PHL that day. He used this
strategy and was able to depart his originating airport and get right in
to PHL.


--
Peter