Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I agree with this perspective. I won't wait at the gate, but I am very careful to watch the monitors in the lounge and increasingly to also check flight status repeatedly on my laptop/ipad/phone. I don't expect the lounge dragons to remember to follow the flight or to make announcements, although this is likely to happen in small places.
OP said all electronic monitors in the airport and lounge continued to show the delayed time, even after the plane pushed back.
Any chance that checking flight status using the Delta app or your computer would show what was really happening?