Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Is my impression right that in some airports, the monitors show the flight as boarding at the boarding time, regardless of whether it is actually boarding or not (assumin that no significant delay has been announced) while in other places, boarding really means that it's boarding?
Yes, certain airports, where Delta doesn’t maintain the FIDS, flight times are manually updated or change based on the scheduled departure. Delta operated FIDS change based on the actual status of the flight in semi real time.