Flight delay reason

[DaveReidUK]

If my flight's delayed, I appreciate being given a reasonable amount of information on whether it's a technical issue, crew availability, ATC problem, etc, so that I can make an informed judgement on how long it's likely to last (because the airline often won't stick their neck out and tell me).

That includes being told that a late incoming aircraft is the reason - at least in that case I can be reasonably sure that we're going to depart as soon as the aircraft can be turned round.

[Hotel Tango]

caaardiff, your post is as almost as condescending as that particular announcement.

You say:

Start giving reasons for previous delays and you can have a long list of delays throughout the day for the reason the last flight of the day is late. Pointless long announcement that will just cause more confusion.

Here is what I said:

The point is that it's delayed and that's all I need to know. Obviously it's delayed for one of a myriad of reasons which will have affected that aircraft that day (or even the previous day in some cases).

So, where am I asking for a long "pointless" announcement with the aircraft's history for the day?

[PAXboy]

This is but one of the many threads that have discussed the topic in the neighbouring SLF forum:

http://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf...ns-delays.html