Originally Posted by
Fredturbo
Last year flew as a revenue pax on a flight from IND-ATL delayed for a significant storm. Departure was 1500. After 2300, told us to come back in the AM. 0900, the flight departed with the same flight number, half full. Strange thing was another oversold flight at the next gate departing to ATL at the same time. They wouldn’t allow any pax from the oversold flight to get on the 18 hour “delayed” flight.
Although that happens, it's quite rare.
I bet if you looked at a list of all the 3000+ mainline flights per day you'd find ~5 that were delayed more than a couple hours, on an average day where weather doesn't decimate one of the hubs.
Extremely pro-active about equipment substituting in a 320/737/etc. for a broken/delayed 717/88/320 et al.