Originally Posted by
Jumpgate
Also, the complete lack of updates to the monitors, 800 numbers etc, is very common with most airlines, although US is particularly bad at it. It's common practice for the "on time" departure time to come and go with no plane at the gate. I've learned to add 15 - 20 minutes to whatever time the GA announces, so if the incoming flight it "scheduled" to arrive at 6:10, it's actually arriving more around 6:25 ... and since it's "arriving" at 6:10, they post a departure of 6:25!
I find that most other airlines are fine about FLIFO on their mainline equipment and wholly owned express operators, much less so with the contract express operators.
I find US (particularly the website) to be worthless anymore. flightaware.com is more accurate than most sources of information from US.