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Apr 10, 2013, 5:37 PM

stonecold_1981 stonecold_1981 is offline

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actually with the footnote that Jim added, the whole point of sending an alert is rendered obsolete!
If it is physically not possible for an airline to send a delay alert with the correct new time, why send an alert in the first place? It sounds something like ..."Your flight is delayed by X hours (to 9.30pm for example). However, this information is of no use to you since we may change the flight time again and it may be BEFORE 9.30pm. You still need to be at the gate per the originally scheduled flight time"

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