Originally Posted by
longing4piedmont
Due to WEATHER / TSTMS, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving The William B Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA (ATL). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 3 hours and 58 minutes. To see if you may be affected, select your departure airport and check "Delays by Destination".
Thunderstorms and airplanes don't play well together......
I don't think the OP was arguing the fact that there was a legitimate reason for the hold. OP was asking if the fact that DL Scheduling decided to change the order of precedence of the flights in requesting their Clear Hold times would have an impact on compensation required to flyers on the further disadvantaged/delayed flight (delayed beyond the expected hold time due to DL Scheduling wanting the other aircraft to get cleared first).