USAirways - St Thos to Charlotte - Fuel in San Juan

Bumblebee2 · Post by **Bumblebee2** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:35 pm

We flew home today on USAirways. The scheduled routing was: St Thomas to Charlotte, NC. After boarding the pilot announced we would be making a stop in San Juan first to pick up additional required fuel. Anybody know why this might happen? Why wouldn't they fuel the plane in St. Thomas?

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:34 pm

Since it is the end of the month, there may be a fuel shortage on STT... I believe such a situation has happened in the past.

Pia · Post by **Pia** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:48 pm

Maybe as it was Carnival a lot of airport workers might not have shown up therefore no one to refuel

(don't laugh it is a possibility)

Pia

Bumblebee2 · Post by **Bumblebee2** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:04 am

Very possible scenarios I think. My recent experience departing from the St. Thomas airport on a Saturday morning leads me to think they are in serious need for expansion and or re-organization. For future trips we may try to avoid departing on a weekend.

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