3 hours ago3 hr No. Apparently, the flight left Boise about 2:23 MT and was scheduled to arrive in Eugene approx 2:30 PT.The flight did not land. There was rain in Eugene at that time and the Sun Country charter flight pilots circled Eugene waiting for a weather break. After a period of time, they decided to divert to Portland.The flight landed in Portland, but rather than attempt to fly back to Eugene a decision was made to bus to Eugene on Friday evening. But, the contracted buses were in Eugene. So, the team waited in Portland for the buses to arrive.Last estimate I read would put the team in Eugene sometime around 9:00 pm or a bit thereafter.All my notes are based on a BSU beat writer's Twitter/X account.
1 hour ago1 hr Author No. Buses departed PDX around 6:45 pm. So, 9:00 pm still the estimate...but it if Friday traffic.
1 hour ago1 hr Author No. The Oregonian: The flight was diverted to Portland due to heavy rains around the Eugene Airport, which is undergoing construction on its larger (wider?), West runway.
40 minutes ago40 min No. Ok... So I had to look it up. Driving from Boise to Eugene is 7 hours and 40 minutes ... About. The plane trip is 1:40 minutes... Then Eugene to Portland is 30-50 minutes but with all the other delays let's just rack that up to an hour. So plane time wise let's say 2 hours for Eugene and 1 hour to diver to Portland, including getting from campus to the Boise airport. So we are at 3 hours. Normally Eugene to Oregon is 2 hours... So 4 hours round trip. But but but... It's a Friday night with some rain and these are busses we're talking about and not cars. So the waiting and travel from PDX to Eugene is probably closer to 5 hours. Whole travel total is probably around 8 hours for them today. They might as have driven from BSU to Eugene.
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