Flight delay 3hrs - CA not back from vacation

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ComplexHiAv8r

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Last night HOU-ICT three hours late because the captain was returning from a vacation in Mexico and his flight was delayed getting into Houston.

Yep, that is what the passengers were told

Where were the reserves???

How fatigued do we think this CA was doing the flight?
 
Its almost unbelievable they told the customers that... Why not say the CA's arriving flight was delayed and leave it at that?
 
Some gate agents need to be slapped across the face.
Some need a raise and commended for the job they do.

Guess which one applies in this case?

Also, how do they know the cappy was on vacation? Did he not take her, but his other girlfriend and she's jealous?
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
Last night HOU-ICT three hours late because the captain was returning from a vacation in Mexico and his flight was delayed getting into Houston.

Yep, that is what the passengers were told

Where were the reserves???

How fatigued do we think this CA was doing the flight?
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Don't believe everything the gate agent says. They make all kinds of crap up. They routinely give passengers some excuse about crew shenanigans while we're sitting on the plane wondering why they haven't started boarding yet.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus that ate your iPhone.
 
Ralgha said:
Don't believe everything the gate agent says. They make all kinds of crap up. They routinely give passengers some excuse about crew shenanigans while we're sitting on the plane wondering why they haven't started boarding yet.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus that ate your iPhone.
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Why would the gate agents delay boarding?

[\ignorant question]
 
SteveC said:
Why would the gate agents delay boarding?

[\ignorant question]
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Often seems to be too shortstaffed to start boarding when working alone with a flight of 80 pax when there are still people to be bought off an oversold flight, or people to be upgraded, or people to be assigned seats, etc. They simply can't do it all themselves and something has to give.
 
SteveC said:
Why would the gate agents delay boarding?

[\ignorant question]
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-Because they haven't finished playing words with friends yet.
-Because they got yelled at the night before for starting boarding too early (so they could go home earlier).
-Because they don't like the crew and want to make them late.
-Because they are still trying to close out the last flight because either a) it was running late or b) they are slow.
-Because operations called them and told them that the crew was going to be late to the plane which a) could be true or b) might be due to a mix up in somebody reading the scheduling computer.
-Because the person making the announcement isn't actually the agent working the gate and the actual agent is running late due to something.
-Because there are no rampers to throw bags.

These are all actual reasons I've seen, just this year and, keep in mind, in about zero of these cases was the reason told to the passengers (if any reason was actually given) the actual reason for the delay in boarding.
 
I was on a Virgin flight from LHR-LAX the FA mentioned the delay was the original captain got into a car accident on the way to the airport. It was very ironic, he was unable to get 4 seats 20 miles to the airport safely, where he was meant to get 400 seats 6000 safely.
 
"Awaiting arrival of crew" would have easily sufficed here.

Although I wouldn't be surprised that they just made that vacation BS up.
 
I_Money said:
I was on a Virgin flight from LHR-LAX the FA mentioned the delay was the original captain got into a car accident on the way to the airport. It was very ironic, he was unable to get 4 seats 20 miles to the airport safely, where he was meant to get 400 seats 6000 safely.
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And you know for a fact that the car accident was his fault or that he wasn't in a cab or van being driven by someone else?
 
I_Money said:
I was on a Virgin flight from LHR-LAX the FA mentioned the delay was the original captain got into a car accident on the way to the airport. It was very ironic, he was unable to get 4 seats 20 miles to the airport safely, where he was meant to get 400 seats 6000 safely.
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Well I know (as it was my brother, an ATP pilot) that the pilot CA did show at the gate an then boarded the plane. So it wasn't the entire crew on board. I'm surprised too they said it.
 
I flew with a new captain the other day, and he told me that on his trip prior, they were departing for MSP, but the visibility was too low in MSP because he was high mins. A couple other flights HAD taken off for MSP, so the gate agent made a PA saying that the captain is not qualified to fly this flight...

Another day, we had not a had a long enough meal break, and the FA really needed to get some food (as did I). I get back to the gate first and later the FA comes up ~20-25 mins before push, and I hear the GA tell her colleague to make sure to put the delay on the FA because she was late to the aircraft. Grrr! The CA was good and made sure the delay was on us pilots instead later on.

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Gotta love the "throw the crew under the bus" gate agents. I swear, there have been many times where I wanted to throat punch gate agents. Hell, I almost got into a scrap with one in IAD because he failed to have a wheel chair ready for a PAX. Here were his exact words "If you idiots were on time, the chair would have been here...on time"
 
I_Money said:
I was on a Virgin flight from LHR-LAX the FA mentioned the delay was the original captain got into a car accident on the way to the airport. It was very ironic, he was unable to get 4 seats 20 miles to the airport safely, where he was meant to get 400 seats 6000 safely.
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That's an absurd thing to say. Captains don't drive little four seat econo boxes.
 
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