Originally Posted by westcoastman
Agreed...At think at least two flights in a row to SNA were cancelled on Friday afternoon. People were re-booked on later flights. Those booked in FC were probably SOL.
I'm guessing those were legitimate mechanicals.
I was on the SNA-SEA 8:45 PM flight that evening. Due to mechanicals in Oakland, they evening flights were delayed to the point that our aircraft (due in from Oakland) would not be able to land in SNA and take off before curfew. Apparently, even with the noise abatement procedure in SNA, residents who live near the airport find the airport too loud, so no planes are allowed to leave after 10:00 PM.
They AS diverted the flight to LAX and bussed 87 passengers form SNA to LAX, to make the flight to SEA. The passengers who landed at LAX were then bussed back to SNA.
I can't imagine that whole nightmare (handeled well by SNA AS Staff) would be caused by creating "mechanicals" for light loads earlier in the day.
I only whish they could have bused us from airside SNA to airside LAX instead of clearing security again.
Cromely.