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Old Aug 3, 2015 | 3:54 am
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
Seems there's a mismatch between the information outside ba.com (e.g. post #2 & flightstats.com), which is showing a delay of 95 minutes, and ba.com itself, which is showing a delay of 1 day and 95 minutes.
From experience of using the flight status information on EF, it may be that one of the issues is that estimated times etc are sometimes (always?) reported as times alone without a date attached to them. Often, it's possible to interpret the detailed information easily, for example if there's a series of times that shows a rolling delay that's built up into something that then runs overnight.

In this case, the EF display is a bit misleading because it only gives a current ETD and ETA, and the limitations of this data may be a possible explanation for the confusion elsewhere too. However, the big clue is that the flight was originally scheduled for yesterday evening, but hasn't yet departed!
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"DOBA86/02AUG                                                    
* OPERATIONAL FLIGHT INFO *            BA  86   -1 SU 02AUG     
CITY INFO                                       HOUR (LOCAL)  
  
YVR  ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE                1930            
     ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL                  1250  LHR       
                                                                
* 1A PLANNED FLIGHT INFO *              BA  86   -1 SU 02AUG    
APT ARR   DY DEP   DY CLASS/MEAL          EQP  GRND  EFT   TTL  
YVR          1755  SU FAJCDRIWETY/M       744         9:20      
                      BHKMLVSNQOG/M                             
LHR 1115  MO                                                9:20
COMMENTS-                                                       
 1.YVR LHR   - MEMBER OF ONEWORLD                               
 2.YVR LHR   - DEPARTS TERMINAL M                               
 3.YVR LHR   - ARRIVES TERMINAL 5                               
 4.YVR LHR   -   9/ NON-SMOKING                                 
 5.YVR LHR   -  ET/ ELECTRONIC TKT CANDIDATE                    
CONFIGURATION-                                                  
               744  F  14   J  52   W  36   M 235               
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