{"id":10783,"date":"2019-02-07T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:42:38","slug":"polar-vortex-brings-unique-challenges-buf-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/02\/07\/polar-vortex-brings-unique-challenges-buf-station-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar vortex brings unique challenges for BUF station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s polar vortex brought frigid temperatures to most of the Midwest, but for the Envoy team in Buffalo, New York (BUF), it also brought a new challenge and a unique question \u2013 how do you safely push an aircraft back into a white, foggy landscape?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis turn \u2013 AA897 BUF-CLT \u2013 was one that our ramp team will never forget,\u201d explains BUF Supervisor Mark Millanti. \u201cPushback driver <strong>Erin Jack<\/strong>, with wing walkers <strong>Jahi Thornton<\/strong> and <strong>Amy Giacometti <\/strong>really appreciated working with the American crew to get their aircraft turned safely. It was great to see such coordination and teamwork for a rare weather occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Way to stay focused on safety, team BUF!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_BUF_Feb_2019_Whiteout-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_BUF_Feb_2019_Whiteout-2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_BUF_Feb_2019_Whiteout (2)\" width=\"3975\" height=\"2236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s polar vortex brought frigid temperatures to most of the Midwest, but for the Envoy team in Buffalo, New York (BUF), it also brought a new challenge and a unique question \u2013 how do you safely push an aircraft back into a white, foggy landscape? \u201cThis turn \u2013 AA897 BUF-CLT \u2013 was one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}