This is particularly impressive if you compare average airliner delays to average Amtrak delays.
Modern airliners are remarkably good at handling typical bad weather.
> Modern airliners are remarkably good at handling typical bad weather.
Why are you comparing modern airliners to archaic rail systems? Amtrak is far from the shining example of modern rail.
I was in one of the last flights to land at EWR on February 25 before all the area airports were closed for 12 hours. From the ground it was a moderately windy day. In the air, it was scary as hell, and the first time I vomited on a plane, with about a quarter of the other passengers.
There were no derailments or train delays that day.
Only true for airports in the middle of big flat nothing. If there're mountains around, bad weather or visibility makes landing too unsafe, unacceptably so for commercial airlines.
I live near this international airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzQIvVu7mg Closes in bad weather regularly. Doesn't work at all after sunset.
As an example, every few years the volcano on Bali comes to life and hundreds, if not thousands, of flights get delayed or canceled.