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Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

Caroofikus — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:28:13 EDT

@timmus: Haha that's great. I remember being on a puddle jumper one time and the captain came runnning out of the cockpit to go to the bathroom. We were already taxiing and had to pull over to some spot of pavement just off the runway. Good times indeed...

Caroofikus

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

Mr. Gunn — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:31:10 EDT

That's great, but the FAA has good status info too.

Mr. Gunn

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

VicMatson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:27:17 EDT

The only thing I can tell you is I do use FlightStats, Google just started Google search subscriptions and you are the one I go to because being on hold gets frustrating. However I have, more that once, read the report and gotten a different story from the Pilots(KR)that flew the flight.

Just enter the airlines and the flight number!

VicMatson

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

flightstats — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:10:38 EDT

@VicMatson:
FlightStats data doesn't just come from the airlines.

FlightStats aggregates flight data from a variety of sources including the GDSs, FAA, airports, and airlines.

You can often get the real story from us well ahead of the time the gate agents know what's happening.

flightstats

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

VicMatson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:58:38 EDT

I check airbills every day and can tell you the reasons given online for delay are vague at best...rarely as clear as said!

It would also interest you to know cargo is tendered and an airbill issued, but from there on it is assumed that the airline employees get it on the flight. Most of the airlines use 3rd party services(like ATI[Delta} and Quantium[Northwest] etc.) to sub contract this out, witch creates denialability! Scary hoh,Delta for example has no idea if a package got lost in Atlanta until it doesn't show at it's final destination.

I can see poster using FlightStats as a source, but keep in mind they are only reporting(xml)from the airlines!

VicMatson

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

zanhecht — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:37:19 EDT

Too bad it doesn't work with US Airways or Delta -- they require an package tracking number.

zanhecht

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

Trackback — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:44:57 EDT

Here's a great tip from Consumerist: airlines' cargo-tracking websites often give the real explanation for flight delays on their passenger jets.

Trackback

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

P41 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:01:08 EDT

Beautiful. Nothing scummier than an airline keeping people hostage at the gate because they didn't want to fess up the flight would be delayed.

P41

Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

timmus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:07:47 EDT

UAL285:
Capt. Miller dlyd 20 min, on the can, dispatch asked to bring Kaopectate to bathroom near Gate A38.

timmus