Any of you guys that fly the United Express routes got stuck at IAD last night.? Some poor pilots at ASA, Colgan, Mesa and WaterSki got stuck for over 2 hours (After boarding) because it seems to me that the rampers were missing that night. All I could here on the radio chatter was somthing like

Jetlink 7540: "Ops this is 7540 to Rochester where are the rampers?"

AWAC ops "They are comning"

Jetlink 7540 "Yeah well we have been waiting for over 40 minutes"

or things like

Ops this is ACEY 7050 to Portland if we don't get pushed within the hour we are going to have to cancel due to duty time"

"Ops this is 7540 again WE have some VERy ****ed off Passengers that are wondering why we were not pushed"

Ops this is Colgan 6870 where is the deiceing crew

As for me I was on N501MJ call sign: "Mesa MX 501" that was parked at A2A. We needed to get pushed as well. It took a while for us too.

So for all those guys that had to deal with angry passengers, you have my sympathies.