Originally Posted by
javabytes
Just because there's blue skies outside your window and some other flight is leaving on time between your origin and destination doesn't mean your flight can't be delayed due to weather. The inbound aircraft could be coming from anywhere.
Yes.
But when the arrival of the inbound aircraft has been delayed due to weather situations earlier in the day, my flight is now delayed because of operational issues (e.g. the lack of spare aircraft to operate the schedule in a timely fashion).