Originally Posted by
JHake10
"folks, it's your captain here. We're number 25 for takeoff. It looks like Newark out there. I do these red-eyes quite often and never seen this"
This was on SFO-PHL at 11:26 PM as we were already delayed.
This compounded with a few other delays cancelled UA 1978 that evening. A couple minutes over on the crew rest time, and we were next in line for takeoff.