What Is Up With ATL Lately?
Jun 28, 2018, 9:32 pm
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What Is Up With ATL Lately?
What is up with ATL lately? Last few months it seems like any time you arrive at ATL there is no ground crew to meet the flight, no gate agent to move the jet bridge, etc.
this week was was the best when you arrive on a very delayed flight to find they are completely out of gates so you sit on the plane another 60 + minutes while operations figures out the mistake that they forgot planes were still in the air.
is anybody experiencing this? Is there some sort of labor dispute and this is some sort of work slow down?
all other DL destinations even with delays etc have been great you arrive and park immidiately and deplane. Seems like it’s all ATL where the problems are ....
this week was was the best when you arrive on a very delayed flight to find they are completely out of gates so you sit on the plane another 60 + minutes while operations figures out the mistake that they forgot planes were still in the air.
is anybody experiencing this? Is there some sort of labor dispute and this is some sort of work slow down?
all other DL destinations even with delays etc have been great you arrive and park immidiately and deplane. Seems like it’s all ATL where the problems are ....
Jun 28, 2018, 9:43 pm
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The delays and problems my family has encountered in May and June have been the result of the usual summer thunderstorm issues that cascaded long enough to still have impacts after the sun has come out.
Jun 28, 2018, 9:45 pm
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fair enough but when you arrive due to the delays after midnight and operations knows you’re still in the air you’d think they would have ground ops push a plane out of a gate that is sitting over night. It wasn’t like it was some surprise guest that appeared...
Jun 28, 2018, 9:54 pm
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Plus I have noticed this has been trending in the wrong direction since March/April so the summer storm season is not really an excuse.... (these same issues time and time again)
Jun 28, 2018, 10:01 pm
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Your bad luck or imagination. I have been there more than a dozen times in the last few months and never even waited on those things even when we were early, which was at least 80% of them.
Jun 28, 2018, 10:08 pm
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How many flights have you flown to/from Atlanta since March/April? There are 1,000 DL flights out of Atlanta every day. That's more than 100,000 flights since March. Do you think you've flown enough flights to see a meaningful trend?
Jun 28, 2018, 10:15 pm
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Delta used to be really good in ATL. I remember in 2007 there were some really nasty storms and we got diverted to HSV. When we made it to ATL we were greeted by an agent in plain clothes. Lots of agents had come back in to work to help out. Those days are long gone.
Jun 28, 2018, 10:44 pm
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I recently had a flight where we landed on time and sat on the tarmac for 50 minutes. The pilot came on the PA and said they were "radioing the tower and no one was responding so they couldn't get anyone to move our jetbridge."
I kid you not, we sat there and the pilot BLINKED THE HEADLIGHTS repeatedly for about 3 minute intervals before we finally got moving. The pilot apologized profusely but it was clearly ground crew that messed up.
No thunderstorms, no delays, just a late-evening arrival (after 10 PM)
I kid you not, we sat there and the pilot BLINKED THE HEADLIGHTS repeatedly for about 3 minute intervals before we finally got moving. The pilot apologized profusely but it was clearly ground crew that messed up.
No thunderstorms, no delays, just a late-evening arrival (after 10 PM)
Jun 28, 2018, 10:54 pm
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Delta recovery at ATL can be a joke.
One round of thunderstorms and it is utter chaos.
2448 landed 3 hours late and then we waited for a gate for almost an hour.
Got the pleasure of watching my ORD connection leave that if we didn’t wait on the tarmac would have easily made.
The lines for customer service at 1am were insane.
One round of thunderstorms and it is utter chaos.
2448 landed 3 hours late and then we waited for a gate for almost an hour.
Got the pleasure of watching my ORD connection leave that if we didn’t wait on the tarmac would have easily made.
The lines for customer service at 1am were insane.
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Jun 29, 2018, 7:44 am
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I recently had a flight where we landed on time and sat on the tarmac for 50 minutes. The pilot came on the PA and said they were "radioing the tower and no one was responding so they couldn't get anyone to move our jetbridge."
I kid you not, we sat there and the pilot BLINKED THE HEADLIGHTS repeatedly for about 3 minute intervals before we finally got moving. The pilot apologized profusely but it was clearly ground crew that messed up.
No thunderstorms, no delays, just a late-evening arrival (after 10 PM)
I kid you not, we sat there and the pilot BLINKED THE HEADLIGHTS repeatedly for about 3 minute intervals before we finally got moving. The pilot apologized profusely but it was clearly ground crew that messed up.
No thunderstorms, no delays, just a late-evening arrival (after 10 PM)
Jun 29, 2018, 8:31 am
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Delta recovery at ATL can be a joke.
One round of thunderstorms and it is utter chaos.
2448 landed 3 hours late and then we waited for a gate for almost an hour.
Got the pleasure of watching my ORD connection leave that if we didn’t wait on the tarmac would have easily made.
The lives for customer service at 1am weee insane.
One round of thunderstorms and it is utter chaos.
2448 landed 3 hours late and then we waited for a gate for almost an hour.
Got the pleasure of watching my ORD connection leave that if we didn’t wait on the tarmac would have easily made.
The lives for customer service at 1am weee insane.
Jun 29, 2018, 10:01 am
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That or "we cant find a ground crew to get us the last 10 feet into the gate" or "we cant find the gate agent to drive the jetbridge"
Jun 29, 2018, 10:30 am
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Jun 29, 2018, 11:09 am
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