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Delta 975 on 8/21/2019 had a crazy delay!!!
So yesterday Delta 975 JFK-LAX was 18 hours late aircraft late departing. Weather was not bad although a waver was in effect. The inbound flight came in early. Passengers not offered a hotel. Management blames weather and air traffic in the region. But this long of a delay is inexcusable. |
Originally Posted by buckeyefanflyer
(Post 31445649)
So yesterday Delta 975 JFK-LAX was 18 hours late aircraft late departing. Weather was not bad although a waver was in effect. The inbound flight came in early. Passengers not offered a hotel. Management blames weather and air traffic in the region. But this long of a delay is inexcusable. |
Looks like they took off and returned to JFK then went back to LAX or am I reading the info on flight stast wrong
https://www.flightstats.com/v2/fligh...onth=8&date=21 |
What are the passengers rights for compensation? If it's really "weather" related, I don't believe they are due anything. However, this appears an abuse of the weather excuse (unless all other planes departing/arrving between NYC/LAX had the same issues).
And what about the flights waiting for that plane's arrival? Did they get cancelled? Or delayed? 18 hours as well? Article for anyone wanting more details. |
Originally Posted by WWads
(Post 31445659)
Yeah, this is a definite example of DL's policy of not cancelling to pad stats gone too far. |
Originally Posted by buckeyefanflyer
(Post 31445649)
So yesterday Delta 975 JFK-LAX was 18 hours late aircraft late departing. Weather was not bad although a waver was in effect. The inbound flight came in early. Passengers not offered a hotel. Management blames weather and air traffic in the region. But this long of a delay is inexcusable. |
I was on another flight at the same time which experienced a similar issue. Weather moved in quickly in the afternoon and blocked all departures to the West. There wasn't enough fuel to fly around the weather and make it to the destination. Weather moved in and out over the next several hours and long takeoff delays accumulated. Eventually, we neared the 3-hour tarmac delay limit and the pilot was forced to return to gate. The pilot then timed out while at the gate, and the FAs timed out while looking for a new pilot.
Because the same thing happened to multiple DL flights at JFK, no surprise that it took a long time to find new crews to staff all of the flights. |
It's been a bad week in NYC.
I flew up from RDU on Monday and ended up having 2 flights cancelled before the 3rd finally left (delayed from it's scheduled time) and got in 6 hours late (the second one we sat on the runway for 90 minutes and then the crew timed out before a slot opened). Today my LGA - RDU was delayed 2 hours and I counted my blessings despite that because the later flights were mostly canceled or delayed significantly |
Delta will often delay flights that long, but every passenger is allowed to change to an earlier flight. To or from an alternate airport. In my opinion if you wait 18 hours and don't demand a refund or alternate travel you aren't entitled to anything.
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On the front page of NBCNews.com now.
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Originally Posted by DLASflyer
(Post 31446098)
On the front page of NBCNews.com now.
Ths link doesn't work, so I'm going to try the quote trick. ADDED: The links still doesn't work. |
Originally Posted by jackvogt
(Post 31446064)
Delta will often delay flights that long, but every passenger is allowed to change to an earlier flight. To or from an alternate airport. In my opinion if you wait 18 hours and don't demand a refund or alternate travel you aren't entitled to anything.
Then all hell broke loose and there was no alternate flights to get me home on DL. The quickest was indeed my originally scheduled LAX-ATL flight. Options weren't looking real good on any other carrier either or alternate airport as it was already afternoon time. I like to consider myself a savvy, experienced traveler and it happened to me. |
Originally Posted by Jeff767
(Post 31445783)
What you post makes no sense since when there is a long delay Delta rebooks every passenger possible off the original flight to options arriving the quickest. If passengers remain not operating the flight would only increase their delay. |
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Delta's operations at JFK are abysmal.
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