Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
With 13L/31R closed until next Nov JFK tower is very reluctant to come off the 4/22 runways for landings regardless of crosswind. Don’t know the winds yesterday but there will be lots of crosswind training there this summer. If the go to 13/31 they are single runway ops which means massive delays.
Ironically they departed 31L from KE intersection with winds of 010 at 17 reported by tower prior to takeoff roll.
So 04L would have actually been less crosswind, but they were departing 04L and 31L KE dependingn on the first fix on the route.
(Flights with first fix RBV are in that scenario generally departed 31L KE)