Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
My experience has been that it's AA that can't handle irrops. Their creeping delays are legendary. If I have to fly AA these days, I do so with the full expectation that the flight will be delayed, usually a creeping delay that causes other options to fall by the wayside as the flight goes an hour, then two hours, then 12 hours (!) delayed.
I think that is generally only so for second tier destinations and single-aisle aircraft. I generally only fly on dual-aisle aircraft, so I haven't experienced any irrops issues with AA. Then again, not that many AA flights this year that I've been on, so it's a small sample base.