Jan 1, 2017, 3:07 pm
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2017 Flight [xx] Cancellation / Delay / Diversion etc. on [date] (consolidated)
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2017 Flight [xx] Cancellation / Delay / Diversion etc. on [date] (consolidated)
Mar 1, 2017, 7:55 am
#106
Join Date: Aug 2003
Programs: Bonvoy Amb; AA EXP
Posts: 1,136
Paperwork delay BOS_LAX 166
At the airport. We are being told that the flight paperwork has not arrived. We are now 1hr past departure. Not sure I've heard this delay excuse before. Any insights?
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Mar 1, 2017, 8:27 am
#108
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: BOS
Programs: AA EXP, UA 1K
Posts: 1,078
Had a one hour delay LAX-BOS on B6 for paperwork on Monday...it happens from time to time
Mar 1, 2017, 10:15 am
#109
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It could be paperwork for cargo, paperwork for maintenance, paperwork for fuel, etc...
Mar 1, 2017, 10:21 am
#110
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: CUR
Posts: 2,170
At the airport. We are being told that the flight paperwork has not arrived. We are now 1hr past departure. Not sure I've heard this delay excuse before. Any insights?
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Mar 1, 2017, 10:22 am
#111
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: KCGX
Posts: 144
For those that listen to ATC ground feeds it is very common to hear pilots waiting on paperwork or numbers to pushback or taxi for departure.
Mar 1, 2017, 11:34 am
#112
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At the airport. We are being told that the flight paperwork has not arrived. We are now 1hr past departure. Not sure I've heard this delay excuse before. Any insights?
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Of course all of the AA and non-AA sites say that the flight has boarded. That's what they thought in the Club as well.
Some speculation has been offered that mechanics / engineers have been sequestering the log and causing unnecessary paperwork delays as a way of manifesting dissatisfaction with progress on a labor contract with AA.
Mar 1, 2017, 4:54 pm
#113
Join Date: Aug 2003
Programs: Bonvoy Amb; AA EXP
Posts: 1,136
I guess if I had experienced delays of this kind previously, I might have remembered it, but it's possible I was focused on other things. The only thing that was obtuse (and disappointing) was that the Club folks were unaware of the delay at all and kept uninformed throughout the process.
I'm now in LAX and experiencing a mechanical delay of at least 1.5 hours. Overall a fail, I suppose, today.
Mar 7, 2017, 5:06 pm
#114
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: QF, BA
Posts: 102
I was on AA86 ORD - LHR, scheduled 18:40 on 5 March. Seems bizarre as the 767-300 dinosaur had arrived from PDX at 13:00.
Eventually left gate at 19:50, arriving 3h24m late.
Not the best AA Long-haul experience, particularly concerning this happened upon touchdown.
Eventually left gate at 19:50, arriving 3h24m late.
Not the best AA Long-haul experience, particularly concerning this happened upon touchdown.
Mar 8, 2017, 2:53 pm
#116
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, NSW Australia
Posts: 895
AA72 LAX-SYD Sun 3/5 diverted to HNL
It looks like AA73 LAX-SYD (Sunday March 05) diverted to HNL perhaps back tracking with over 7 hours in the air. Did not arrive in SYD until Wednesday March 08.
No AA72 SYD-LAX operated on Tuesday.
Wednesday seems to have an AA to LAX departure at both 11:15 and 21:15
No AA72 SYD-LAX operated on Tuesday.
Wednesday seems to have an AA to LAX departure at both 11:15 and 21:15
Mar 8, 2017, 3:09 pm
#117
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Location: CLE
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Bad Winds AA 3355
AA 3355 MIA-CLE diverted to CMH do to high winds. Left to head to CLE then got diverted to PIT where it is still sitting.
Mar 8, 2017, 4:11 pm
#118
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Mar 13, 2017, 2:50 pm
#119
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Well this one's new for me. AA 482 from PHL-ORD today is delayed because someone on the inbound flight crashed against the bulkhead between F and Y with such force that they tore it loose from its mountings. The plane is delayed indefinitely while maintenance tries to remove it and fix it or remove it and replace it. Thankfully I got the last seat on a nonstop to my final destination but I imagine it's going to cause a lot of people some grief.
Mar 13, 2017, 3:24 pm
#120
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Saw a strange one yesterday. While still on the ground in ORD, the SFO flight in the afternoon was announced it was going to San Jose instead and they would transport people. you heard 100 people all groan at once and start arranging transportation.
Feel bad for all the people who were then going to go to CX or QF. that would make for a LONG LONG day.
Feel bad for all the people who were then going to go to CX or QF. that would make for a LONG LONG day.
When the FA made the announcement after the doors had closed that we'd be landing in San Jose, a number of passengers were hearing it for the first time and very upset. Even the FAs in first said they didn't learn of the diversion until they boarded.
There was no indication upon arrival on how to get to SFO either.
AA could have done much better communicating this both through electronic means, at the gate, and in advance of departure.