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Old Aug 5, 2011 | 4:16 pm
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"36 gates behind by 2 P.M."
Originally Posted by Thomas Hudson
I did 30 mins twice this week in ATL... Not only are you missing your flight when this happens, but 30 minutes of no gin and tonics or wee wee breaks are just plain cruel and unusual punishments....

10 mins I can kind of understand... but 30 mins is a systemic failure. And the WX was not real bad either time...
"Systemic failure," exactly.

One Delta employee told me (he had been to a family funeral, sitting next to me while waiting 30+ minutes for a gate) that on Mondays, operations schedules gate assignments so that, if everything functions flawlessly, by 2 P.M. they will be 36 gates behind.
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