Originally Posted by
lucycan
This was indeed an odd flight. We changed gates 3 times in about 15 min and then ended up taking a fully loaded flight that was about to depart to Chicago and pulled everyone off of it, loaded it up ourselves, and went on our way. First time I had seen that in my 1.5m miles!
According to flightstats.com it was only 2 in 20 minutes. Looks like the aircraft that had been scheduled to operate 6254 diverted to EAU coming up from STL. They chose to then swap it with the aircraft operating the ORD flight about 7 minutes before the ORD flight was supposed to leave the gate. Sucks for the ORD passengers.