Originally Posted by
buschoi
The estimated departure time for Dec 27 is also moved to 7:00pm. So it looks like CX knows the equipment that will operate CX872 will be late. I have no idea what causes the delay though... Perhaps inbound flight was late?
Since it's USA bound I think it may be related to that would-be bomber. TSA probably already ordered all kinds of scrutiny in the airports and that causes massive delays.
Give it a few months and things will return to the unsafe political correct and motivated "safety procedures" again.