Originally Posted by
chrisl137
FlightAware sometimes has poor exception handling. The text shows the flight leaving SFO, as does the flight plan, but if you look at the actual track, it departed OAK.
If so (and I blew up the flight path and it does look like a OAK departure) then the "diverted" flight which was supposed to leave SFO at 9:51p left OAK at 11:01p. Anyone who went to SFO would be screwed. If you were connecting or were coming from the Pennsula, there is no way to get from SFO-OAK and clear security in time, let alone if you have bags to check.
But you were doubly hosed on AS since they also cancelled the 8:53pm departure. Those folks then would have to what - bus it over to OAK?
Great example of why this is a CS disaster. Folks wanting/needing to get to SFO from PDX will be PO since they got diverted/cancelled/have no fall back option; people wanting to get from SFO to SEA either have to try to make it to a different airport (surprise, surprise) or get their flight cancelled and find out that the last flight of the day is no longer from SFO, its now via OAK. AS impacted hundreads of people, few of which are going to think "oh, I really wanted to go via OAK, happy days". The contrast between this and delays - which everyone expects/understands, is really striking.