jetskipper interpreted the commercial's text correctly, provided that any air traffic control (ATC) delay affected only a particular route and was not a ground delay program into an affected airport (no matter what the route). Assuming the weather viewable by the dispatcher showed a clear route which would be viable when filed with ATC, the dispatcher filed the amended flight plan, ATC cleared the re-route and the flight was no longer subject to any route delay. What's interesting is that 99% of the viewers of the commercial might be impressed to amazed by the incident depicted.
For a different reported instance where cell phones were used by air traffic control in a non-traditional way, see
this article about a recent telephone/radar outage at Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center in which Memphis Ctr. controllers used their personal cell phones to contact adjacent centers to coordinate a/c movements/handoffs.