Originally Posted by
jsguyrus
AS will tell you it is right on time right up to boarding time. Conversely, they will tell you hours out that it is delayed and then as it gets close to boarding time it magically becomes "on time" only to be delayed by the original time period.
Had an 800am departure on AS a few weeks ago where I got the dreaded "Your flight is delayed..." message two or three hours beforehand, but opened it up and saw AS was proclaiming a "delay" of 7 minutes. When I got to the gate the aircraft was there, no problems, we actually pushed a few minutes before 800a, and the on-time notifier never corrected. These messages are all software-generated and in my view most unreliable.