Originally Posted by
SFO777
It happens. True, airlines can't dump fuel at the gate but they can off-load. Happened to me on a UA flight last month. SFO-DEN was mistakenly fueled to fly to EWR. Took them 2 hours for the ground crew to mobilize and siphon off enough so we could land in DEN within weight parameters.
Ahhh. That makes sense why they can't fly - too heavy to land. I didn't think of that scenario.
Next question is who is at fault for improper fueling? Prolly the airport I'm guessing and not the airline?
If so, then a bad morning at sfo for AA since there were already huge delays at check in because either the airport network was down or there was some power incident since AA's and other airlines were at a standstill with no computers for self or counter agents.
Good luck to those on this flight that are trying to make connections in lax! Now we are delayed on runway waiting for a lane to clear open to our gate. Brilliant.