American Airlines 3 hour delay
Flight AA 1473 Saturday 8/8/26
Initial boarding was on time at 7:30 AM. Everything is good. We all take our seats then "sorry the maintenance guys says our tires need to be changed". We all deplane.
We then reboard at 8:30 AM, a lot sooner than we all thought. We start taxing and wait in line. Captain comes over again and says "we're just waiting for our line to take off". Then at 9:30 AM he comes over the PA again and says we got a notice from maintenance that we need to go back to the gate to check on something.
Once again we taxi back to the gate and wait some more. At 10:15 AM they clear the "maintenance issue" and say we're waiting to be refueled. It's 10:50 AM and now we're again waiting to take off.
No beverages, no snacks, no real explanation of what caused the delay. Luckily all the passengers were cooperative and level headed. But I don't think this should just be a "oops we're sorry we couldn't figure this out the first 2 hours we were checking and cleaning the plane".
This is unacceptable and should be looked into by the company and the FAA about why these maintenance delays are completely overlooked till the last minute.