Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

But for those of you who weren't here back then, we had a program called "Operation Clockwork", which included the pilots submitting delay codes via ACARS. They made a really big deal about this program when it was rolled out company wide and, at one point, a large percentage of our pilots were sending in the codes. The problem was that, after the huge fanfare with the rollout of "Operation Clockwork", they kept emphasizing it for a while and then we never heard another word about it. The whole program just seemed to fall by the wayside. A few of us kept putting in the delay codes (because we were never told to stop and it was still in the Vol 1). I even called one of the Flt Ops higherups to see if they still wanted these codes via ACARS and was told they did. A few months later, we finally got a memo telling us that they were discontinuing the pilot submitted delay codes. This was at least a couple of years after the initial rollout of "Operation Clockwork" (also known as "Operation A Clockwork Orange" ).