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Old Jul 30, 2016 | 3:27 pm
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Originally Posted by newyorkgeorge
I'm assuming the rebanking of flights is bogging down operations at heavy hubs such as ORD, DFW and MIA. Even if you land early you often arrive late waiting for a gate. Waiting off the tarmac for 30 minutes+ seems to become much more common. A couple of months ago we sat for over 90 minutes as there was a broken a/c at our gate and the claim was that ORD didn't have any other gates to send our 763 to.
This is a major problem and probably why AA ops are negatively affected more than US ops (though CLT is a disaster IMO).
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