Originally Posted by danielonn

It also helps if your at the airport and see your flight has not even left the origination destination I like using tracking by Tail# or use the feature on the tracking map to see were the plane is coming from and backtrack it to see that it has not left Chicago as of yet.

This is great when a gate agent says the flight is only 10 minutes late but then I go on FlightAware to see if he or she is really telling the truth. If Fligt 333 is delayed 2 hours at Chicago then I know the SFO-HNL flight will leave late.