American Airlines Perfects Flux Capacitor...

"SBA Thanks You For All The Fish" (santabarbarianlsx) 01/14/2020 at 21:35 • Filed to: None

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Or, they could just be an operational mess these days. I flew out of American’s Terminal 4 at LAX late in the afternoon on New Year’s Day. This was the two-panel “Flight Departures” Screen in the terminal. The left pane correctly identifies the date as Jan 1, 2020, mid-afternoon . The Right Panel apparently will time-travel you back to December 17, 2019 ... presumably to allow you to run to the Sports Book in Vegas to lay down all those December Bowl Game bets. O ddly, the departure times in the right panel are all consistent with early AM flight departures, so maybe it really was a window back two weeks into the past.

Or, they could  be an operational mess... I’m just glad they aren’t flying 737MAX, since they seem flummoxed by computers.

WilliamsSW > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/14/2020 at 21:47

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The flights were just originally *scheduled* for December 17.

Also they’re commemorating the Wright Brothers’ first flight.  

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > WilliamsSW 01/14/2020 at 21:59

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Heh. I didn’t consider either of those.

I was changing planes once at HNL a few years ago— in the middle of Delta’s self-flogging “Oh, we are great because we never cancel flights” ad campaign. I look up on the board, see a half dozen delayed DL flights to the mainland listed on the board — the shortest delay is 5 hours and the longest closing in on 22 hours delay.

All those passengers must have been hating life by that point, thinking “please oh please, Rule 240 me onto Hawaiian or United to get me off this rock!”. But, Delta claimed it was a selling point. So, yeah, AA might have been savoring Wright Brothers Day...

Planeguy > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/15/2020 at 09:57

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I guess those planes only gotta go 88mph.

WilliamsSW > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/15/2020 at 19:57

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“ you might have to wait a week but we won’t cancel!"

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > WilliamsSW 01/16/2020 at 00:15

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That seems to be the theory. I mean I can see it’s a benefit to not cancel on a whim or due to a 30 minute delay... but geez, in cases where you’re 12 hours late when does it stop being “a delayed flight” and start being “a hostage situation”? And, none of these carriers cancels on a whim.

I despise Delta (after 4 million miles of misery on them all...) not for the lousy service, but the pretension— that “we always do the right thing” horseshit. They’ll do what their rules say, not practice Win-Win.

I CANNOT wait to see the class action lawsuits pile up on Delta from the stunt with the fuel dump yesterday in LA.... Those 2 cowboys up front made a huge mess on a bunch of fronts. The ATC guys asked those pilot s OVER AND OVER if they’d take a vector out over the ocean to go dump fuel and they declined, saying they wanted the long runway for a quick touchdown. Then they crop-dust ed South LA with 100K pounds of JP4.

WilliamsSW > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/16/2020 at 08:04

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I’ve got about a millions miles, but split between UA and AA mostly. My experiences have been good on Delta, but they’re limited.

Seems to me that if the aircraft couldn’t get over water for fuel dumping out of LAX ( the plane DID depart westbound!) then it should have landed overweight ( yes they can)

We’ll see what the investigation reveals - clearly the crew was pretty concerned.