What I enjoy about @AlaskaAir is their stoic determination to operate a flight *no matter how many* hours late it may depart*
*except when they cancel outright and re-book you on a trip that is on the ground at destination for less than 4 hrs, on the wrong days (last month)
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@AlaskaAir story in unnanounced at-gate signage updates (for a nominal ~7:25PM flight): "Estimated: 9:20PM" (9:30: plane arrives, passengers deplane) "Estimated: 9:35PM" "Estimated: 9:51PM" "Estimated: 10:30PM" *Courage*2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Announcement 10 minutes ago: "we will be boarding in 13 min" Nobody lines up.pic.twitter.com/JV2gIQ1I5l
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@AlaskaAir might be hot merger trash, but I'm starting to think better of my fellow travelers.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
It is 10:25. We have boarded but not pushed back. I'm super grateful we're going. That's some grim determination, yo.
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Flight attendants just had to announce that they're in the same boat; have been waiting at SFO since *noon*.
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Narrator: 10:50PM, they had not pushed back.
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11:02: (Replaced!) Captain levels with us: they're flying aircraft with busted APUs so couldn't start engines on internal power. What dastardly shit was Virgin America pulling with maintenance? Did they buy a lemon?
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For context: flight last month was cancelled due to Virgin failing to pull planes for required FAA bulletins. Huge aviation no-no. Hosed APU (tiny jet engine at the back) is only an irritant by comparison...but what are the odds?
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This is hitting them hard: they just pulled a crew off the line because they were afraid of hitting timeouts on sleep/wake/work cycle. Hoses planning for whole routes.
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Pushing back!!! 


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Narrator: they were not pushing back.
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...or *were they!?!?????*
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Alaska 1759
3 minutes to Tuesday, nearly three hours after it was meant to have


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