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Well, this seems to have come back from the dead.

To the original post, Delta was in the wrong. Why? Does anyone remember the Comair computer meltdown a few years ago? There was a huge winter storm system that pretty much grounded them for the day. The next day, their crew scheduling computer shut down because there were so many transactions taking place trying to get the crew back on track. Comair blamed it on the weather, however the DOT saw otherwise. Yes, it started with the weather, but it went beyond that. Is anyone here, including current/former airline employees really going to say that when De-ice truck number one (and apparently only) broke down, that they didn't have some backup plan?

Having worked in Florida, de-icing was a foreign concept to us, but even with that I'm pretty sure there would have been another airline that would have been happy to let Delta pay for the de-icing and even charge them 2 or 3 times their cost for the Glycol.