Trip delay

[Dave Siciliano]

Seems a major airline had a maintenance issue. 4:00 A.M. notice our dream vacation would be delayed.

“ Good morning ladies and gentlemen, we have an abnormal delay this morning; we will be back to normal delays as soon as possible.”

[Larry sreyoB]

Lots of weather delays today. BOS, EWR, JFK, LGA, ORD all showing ground delay programs at the moment.

https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/

If your an optimist, think about the weather delays that your mechanical delay is saving you from!

If you're a pessimist; Damn, those airport food outlets are expensive!

I'm home where the only delays I've experienced have been two extended rain delays in the last two Braves' games...

[Dave Siciliano]

Of course, we have the normal hotel reservations which will have to be adjusted and will probably lose at least one day together. Don't think my family can push things back a day with their work schedule. Better to be cancelled before I had gone to the airport and waited. My niece had driven in with young kids and worked out new flights at 4:00 this morning. She's now taking another carrier. I'm on the same flight tomorrow morning. We'll see.

[Larry sreyoB]

Where are you going?

[Dave Siciliano]

If I post that, I can't post pics and ask where i am later :-)

[Larry sreyoB]

That's a good point!

[Dave Siciliano]

Did you see the PM?

[Terry Carraway]

I had a delay leaving MSY on Wednesday.

Missed my connection in ATL. Of course, to a one flight per day location.

[Dave Siciliano]

That's a real bummer and sometimes can't be avoided. Hopefully, they helped with a room and meals. That's what we had. One plane out a day to destination and they scrubbed it.

[Larry sreyoB]

This was one of my flights yesterday.

The release showed us arriving with over 11,000 pound of fuel; nearly two hours. As the storms moved through Texas it kept closing arrivals into IAH. Everyone would be re-routed to another arrival. The storms would move and close that arrival and everyone would be rerouted again. I think we were rerouted five times on three separate arrivals.

We eventually landing with 6,200 pounds. A lot of other flights ended up in Austin.

[Dave Siciliano]

Good you were even able to get in there.

[Terry Carraway]

That's a real bummer and sometimes can't be avoided. Hopefully, they helped with a room and meals. That's what we had. One plane out a day to destination and they scrubbed it.

Got a room. And $15 meal voucher, for 24 hour delay. And supposedly, only got meal voucher due to my airline status (Diamond on Delta this year).