80% of airports believe the top benefit from alerting system is better severe weather decision-making.

USE ALERTS FOR BETTER DECISIONS

Respondents indicated that 43% of all delays are weather related and most commonly occur due to lightning, fog, rain, wind/downbursts, and extreme temperatures.

DELAYS DUE TO WEATHER

43%

80%

WEATHER SAFETY SURVEY

O P E R AT I O N SKey findings from the annual survey on weather safety

from airports, airlines, and fixed-based operations.

Nearly 9 out of 10 respondents say they worry about severe weather at least once a month. 50% indicate they worry about weather-related impacts every day.

WORRIED ABOUT WEATHER

90%

Despite the agreement on e�ectivemethods and obvious benefits,

only 45% of airports use safety tools

75%RANK LIGHTNING AS #1 CONCERNOver 75% of respondents indicated lightning is their number one severe weather worry. To beat this top weather threat as well as other weather-related concerns, aviation operations most commonly rely on text alerts, horn alerts, and strobe alerts.

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