Originally Posted by
Spiff
My money's on headwinds requiring more fuel.
That would be my guess as well.
Either that or the Buy on Board items were running low so they added another cart or two of $3 stax chips, 3 musketeers and big cookies.
Seems like too fast a turnaround to offload a problem passenger but about right to unload a medical emergency, so that might have been it as well.
Maybe a concierge key passenger requested a stop at LAX so they could have a morning 763 ORD-LAX (didn't want to wait for the 3:10pm flt 93)?