Originally Posted by chwbauer
Southwest is notoriously bad at giving reliable estimates for delays. Even if they know that a plane is already delayed by over an hour on a previous flight, they still show a much smaller delay time. Anybody know why they do this?
I must not fly enough, because I have always found the gate agents to be very forthcoming if there was any question on depature time being delayed, the one time in Baltimore they could not give a specific time for departure was due to trying to get a replacement aircraft & crew for a plane that they took out of service. The told us a couple hours and it was pretty close to a couple hours when we departed to MHT.
I find MHT, BWI and MCO to be almost exact on the monitors, MDW and MCI seemed to be a little off on the monitors. Is it more the individual airline that is posting this info or airport authorities?