On December 18, 2009 I, my wife and my 9 month old baby were to fly from ATL to EWR on CO1152. Upon arriving at the gate in ATL I was told by CO agent that my flight was delayed due to late inbound aircraft, since CO made an aircraft change.

I looked up and found earlier that day, morning flight CO84 was cancelled due to mechanical problem (I confirmed with CO agent) and it looked like CO wanted to accomodate the CO 84 passengers by switching the CO1152 aircraft from B737-500 to B737-800.

I got onboard on CO1152 and the flight crew did all they could to ensure the flight was as pleasant as possible and made up some minutes. However, the pilot informed the passengers that the delay was to the weather.

I complained the conflicting story on CO website and now CO says the delay was due to weather.

Other EWR-ATL & ATL-EWR CO flights made ontime arrivals that day (except cancelled inboudn and outbound and my inbound and outbound.)

I was expecting some kind of "sorry for conflicting stories".. But reply was one line "Our records indicate flight 1152 on December 18, 2009 was delayed 56 minutes due to weather. I regret you feel the delay was for a Continental service reason."