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Mar 31, 2013, 8:18 pm

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Originally Posted by BostonBusinessTraveler

I had a flight last year that was scheduled for 7:00 PM at PHL. Around 10am it was delayed by an hour, by noon it was delayed until 10pm, and by 3pm it was delayed until 1am.

I had an important morning meeting the following day and I couldn't risk the flight being canceled and then having to compete with everyone else to get onto the first morning flight. I decided to book a room at an airport hotel and change my flight to the AM.

As time got closer and closer to 7:00 PM, the delay was shrinking more and more, eventually to only be 1 hour delayed.

Moral of the story, flight delays can be pushed up just as easily as they can be pushed back.

Exactly. Had an experience last month where a flight (UAX) took a mechanical delay just prior to boarding, Capt personally announced to all of us at the gate it would be a minimum of 2 hours till mechanics would even get there, and then probably an hour for repair. Flight ended up departing only 40 minutes late.

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