Originally Posted by [email protected]

<snip> But, the UA flight back was delayed two hours because of the required hours of rest for the crew in New Orleans. Then United spends more 45 minutes to tank up some extra fuel to save money at LAX. As the plane had sat there all night, why didn’t they think of that sooner?

Also, there was no information until well after the planned departure time as what was going on or even that there was a delay. UA knew that the flight could not leave until the crew had their hours of rest, so why make the passengers sit around confused. I would have had time for another beignet at the Café du Monde. I have usually been better informed of delays on AA. <snip>.