#1
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 817
Where to find Reason for delays?
Flight is delayed, but website gives nothing more than delayed. How can you find out the reason a flight is delayed?
AC 505 today, YYZ-ORD
#2
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: YVR
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90% of the time the only way you'll get the real reason for an AC delay is from a front line AC staffer who has moved beyond the "don't take responsibility for anything attitude of HQ".
#3
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I find flightaware.com helps sometimes.
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#4
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: YVR
Programs: ACSE, SQPPS, QRGold, CXGold, 9WGold, SPGPlat, Hyatt Plat, Fairmont Plat
Posts: 4,708
Quote:
Originally Posted by
yyznomad
I find flightaware.com helps sometimes.
Where does Flightaware state the reason for a delay? I've never seen this.
#5
Join Date: Dec 2010
Programs: AC E
Posts: 116
Where to find Reason for delays?
I use flightstats.com. There is an extended details section that I find useful.
#6
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: YVR
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Posts: 4,708
Quote:
Originally Posted by
uni3052
I use flightstats.com. There is an extended details section that I find useful.
Again, I know of no place a
reason for a delay is stated.
#7
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: CYYC
Posts: 113
Quote:
Originally Posted by
hellyea
Flight is delayed, but website gives nothing more than delayed. How can you find out the reason a flight is delayed?
Flight was delayed due to late Inbound equipment.
#8
Join Date: Feb 2006
Programs: AC*SE, BA, SPG Gold
Posts: 298
Quote:
Originally Posted by
PlaneWatcherYYC
Flight was delayed due to late Inbound equipment.
I believe the OP (and myself) would like to know how to access this sort of information for ourselves, for 'next time'.
Can you enlighten us?
#9
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: YVR
Programs: AC E35K
Posts: 1,127
Quote:
Originally Posted by
PlaneWatcherYYC
Flight was delayed due to late Inbound equipment.
This phrase should be summarily BANNED from the AC vocabulary. It is a result, not a reason.
#10
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: YOW
Programs: AC*E75
Posts: 148
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Sopwith
It is also frequently horsecrap. AC frequently likes to blame the late departure of AC 838 on the late arrival of AC 889, except that when they do it the a/c from AC 889 has been sitting on the ground in YOW for 2+ hours already. Late arrival my @$&.
#11
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: AC-SE, AA-Gold
Posts: 340
I flew in from ORD on the earlier flight in the morning. Lots of thick snow, poor visibility when we went out. We took a small mechanical and were delayed by almost an hour.
#12
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: YXU, ON Canada
Programs: AC*SE; AC*MM; SPG Plat
Posts: 4,035
One of the flight tracking programs (flight view, flightstats) gives the flight # of the inbound flight, but I can't recall which one does that now.
#13
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: YUL
Programs: AC*G, A3*S
Posts: 650
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Academic
One of the flight tracking programs (flight view, flightstats) gives the flight # of the inbound flight, but I can't recall which one does that now.
FlightAware?
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