Flight AA2444 (sfo-lax-dfw) had to change planes at the gate right when boarding started. That happens all the time, well often enough that it's not hardly unusual.

This one is a new one for me though. The flight had too muh fuel for the short first leg (sfo-lax). But once fuel is loaded, they can't dump the fuel. Well not on the ground anyway. Maybe at 30,000 feet...

Anyway so they needed to find a new plane for the lax leg. For folks flying to dfw they had a different flight number so it appears they still boarded on the original over-fueled plane. Which doesn't make sense to me for people in lax trying to go lax-dfw. Very weird.

Anyone every hear of a plane change because of too much fuel??