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2021 Flight [xx] Cancellation / Delay / Diversion etc. on [date] (consolidated)
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Flight Cancel / Cancellation / Cancelled / Delay / Diversion 2021-22 (master thread)
Jan 3, 2021, 11:07 am
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Flight Cancel / Cancellation / Cancelled / Delay / Diversion 2021-22 (master thread)
Hello 2021 - time for a new yearly thread! 
Jan 9, 2021, 10:02 am
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Saw in another thread that AA1181 diverted today. Isnt that like the third diversion on this route in the past month? AA1181 diverted on the 28th to DEN, and I thought one flying EGE to MIA diverted to DFW.
Jan 9, 2021, 10:05 am
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the A319 is a suboptimal aircraft for this route IMO, and they no longer have the 757s available. The payload is to high on all other aircraft’s.
Jan 16, 2021, 10:51 am
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AA 4245 MEM-DFW Issue?
Anyone know if/what the issue was for the 3+ hour delay. Local reports say possible "security issue"??
Jan 16, 2021, 11:29 am
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Article states a "non specific threat" from a passenger onboard.
https://dailymemphian.com/section/me...memphis-flight
https://dailymemphian.com/section/me...memphis-flight
Jan 18, 2021, 9:57 am
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Article states a "non specific threat" from a passenger onboard.
https://dailymemphian.com/section/me...memphis-flight
https://dailymemphian.com/section/me...memphis-flight
I wonder what the passenger had said
Jan 18, 2021, 10:02 am
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Jan 18, 2021, 6:07 pm
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I was booked on AA904 GIG-MIA on 1/17. The caterers neglected to make sure the door was unarmed and popped a evacuation slide. This caused a 12 hour overnight delay as a new slide had to be flown in from MIA. I managed to get the twitter team to rebook me SDU-GRU-MIA and AA proactively sent everyone 15K miles as compensation. I don't know how it was handled at the airport as I never went there but from my end AA handled it pretty well.
Jan 19, 2021, 10:39 am
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I was booked on AA904 GIG-MIA on 1/17. The caterers neglected to make sure the door was unarmed and popped a evacuation slide. This caused a 12 hour overnight delay as a new slide had to be flown in from MIA. I managed to get the twitter team to rebook me SDU-GRU-MIA and AA proactively sent everyone 15K miles as compensation. I don't know how it was handled at the airport as I never went there but from my end AA handled it pretty well.
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Mar 11, 2021, 9:00 pm
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AA flight from PIT diverted today?
I saw a flight overhead this morning around 9:45 am and got curious and looked on flight aware. It had taken off from PIT, turned south, then circled back north and circled a bit before turning and landing.
flight aware said it was diverted back to PIT But I couldn’t see anything else. My app search history seems to say I clicked on AAL 718 but I see no other history of flights with that number. Might not be the right number.
anyway anyone know anything about this?
flight aware said it was diverted back to PIT But I couldn’t see anything else. My app search history seems to say I clicked on AAL 718 but I see no other history of flights with that number. Might not be the right number.
anyway anyone know anything about this?
Mar 11, 2021, 9:36 pm
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Flightaware shows AA745, A319 N742PS operating PIT-DFW, departing the gate 8:54am and taking off at 9:08am before diverting and landing back at PIT at 9:52am.
AA.com shows that the flight finally (re-)departed after 7pm (!) tonight (on a different aircraft).
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...400Z/KPIT/KPIT
AA.com shows that the flight finally (re-)departed after 7pm (!) tonight (on a different aircraft).
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...400Z/KPIT/KPIT
Mar 11, 2021, 10:12 pm
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Thanks ty. I checked the pit-clt and pit-Mia but didn’t check Dfw. Anyone with info on the delay issues?
Track log says takeoff was 9:08, and at 9:15 its climb rate went to zero. 9:16 divert was entered..
12 hour delay is rough, hope most were able to be reaccomodated by then
surprised there is nothing in local news..
Track log says takeoff was 9:08, and at 9:15 its climb rate went to zero. 9:16 divert was entered..
12 hour delay is rough, hope most were able to be reaccomodated by then
surprised there is nothing in local news..
Mar 12, 2021, 5:50 am
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While interesting to us av geeks, not sure why this would be newsworthy? Planes divert all the time.
Mar 12, 2021, 8:46 am
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The PSA retrojet....
Mar 12, 2021, 2:43 pm
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