Originally Posted by
LPCJr
It seems like this happens all the time. I'm waiting for a flight at F in PHL. 10 AM departure. I can down from the club at 9:25. Flight shows on time. At about 9:30 they announce that the captain won't be on the ground until 9:45 and then has to do the full preflight check. Obviously, no way the plane is leaving on time. It's now 10:10, the captain is on, but boarding hasn't started and the flight still says on time, leaving 10 minutes ago.
I understand the delays are going to happen. What I find infuriating is AA's regular habit of failing to update scheduled departures with realistic estimates, when it is clear that there is no way the flight will leave on time. I could have stayed in the club and continued what I was working on.
I've been on flights showing "on time", yet the plane to be used was an inbound which would be 45 minutes
late. A few times the inbound was coming into a different gate--causing (eventually) a gate change announcement [which I realized before the GAs
]
When I arrive at an airport the first board I look at is the ARRIVALS board, since two different flights can't occupy the same gate
, the status of my flight is (usually) contingent on the continuing inbound's status.