Most delayed flights
 

While we love to complain about AA, I am glad they don't figure on this list. Now you know who to avoid!

[Source- http://www.elliott.org/blog/why-was-...-392-minutes/]

Here are the five most-delayed flights:

1. Delta Air Lines flight 745 from New York JFK to Portland, OR, 7/26/09 – delayed on tarmac 392 minutes

2. Continental Airlines flight 432 from Houston to New York LaGuardia, 7/29/09 – delayed on tarmac 310 minutes

3. Continental Airlines flight 1176 from Chicago O’Hare to Newark, NJ, 7/29/09 – delayed on tarmac 299 minutes

4. US Airways flight 17 from New York JFK to Phoenix, 7/26/09 – delayed on tarmac 276 minutes

5. JetBlue Airways flight 34 from New York JFK to Rochester, NY, 7/26/09 – delayed on tarmac 268 minutes

392 minutes? that's nothing.

aa 2312, 4/3/09, pdx-dfw, was delayed 802 minutes, over 13 hours.

scheduled departure was 12:05 pm, actual departure was 1.27 am, according to bts.gov

no i wasn't on it, i just happened to check on a different flight later that day and noticed it had not yet left and still hadn't left later that evening. the seat map around 11pm had about a dozen people on it, which is a little surprising. i would think that they would have reaccommodated everyone on earlier flights. i have no idea why it was delayed 13 hours rather than canceling it.

Maybe those pax were late and thus glad for the delay. :D

Look, I am defending delays, but delays and cancellations are routine. Did AA keep people sitting on the tarmac? I don't know the answer but that is real cruelty.