Originally Posted by mattya9

After sitting in the gate area for a while I'm starting to wonder where our plane is. I hop on the Flightradar24 app to see if I can find N839MH and I notice she is already in ATL but at a holding pad/maintenance hangar on the north/northwest side of the airport (transponder obviously is on at this point). But the part that got me more frustrated was I looked at the flight history for the aircraft and noticed it had been in ATL since 9pm on September 9th! The aircraft had been sitting in ATL for 2+ days and we were still almost 2 hours late leaving. I'm going to assume it was in ATL for that amount of time due to some sort of maintenance issue. Regardless of the reason it was on the ground for 2+ days, I feel like this delay probably could have been avoided with some better planning on Delta's part.
OPS