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Old Jun 17, 2008 | 11:19 am
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Originally Posted by drat19
I'm through MEM and MSP almost every week, and it's pretty consistent with the report about DTW: Early or late, you risk disembarkment delays due to the just-barely-enough-and-only-if-no-one-called-in-sick-that-day ground crew staffing.
Different experience here. I rarely go through MEM, but I go through DTW and MSP often. While I have experienced this type of delay a couple of times in MSP, it seems to happen much more frequently in DTW. Just as ballpark estimates, I'd guess it happens close to 50% of the time arriving in DTW, but I'd be surprised if it's more than 10% or 15% in MSP. YMMV
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