- “In checking on the status of a United flight for a colleague today, I found the message, ‘Schedule Change Due To Customer Service.’
Dear passengers, in an effort to improve your flight experience, we have delayed your flight to O’Hare by 48 minutes. We hope you appreciate the convenience.”
- Jesse
See, they really want you to savor the flight, you’ll enjoy it that much more.
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“Dear passengers, we’ve given up on the published flight times to O’Hare, because they were just a sick fantasy dreamed up by a drunk nun in a barrel of Benedictine. Since we’re always 45 minutes late to O’Hare anyway, we decided it was time to face reality. Go have a drink at the bar.”
In all seriousness, though, that cryptic message means “the line at the gate was overwhelming and we’re not done with check-in yet,” or sometimes it means, “the toilets on the plane were out of paper and the resupply truck is stuck in rush-hour traffic on the 405.”
From the Late, Great, Mitch Hedberg:
“An Escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. They should put signs up that say ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs, Sorry for the Convenience’”.
I use a Mitch Hedberg quote in my email sig:
Rice is really great if you’re hungry and want to eat 2000 of something…
The question semi-posed by the original post… did the flight get officially rescheduled to the later time from now on so it wouldn’t be “late” anymore?