r/FAA

Hi.

I’m just trying to find any other people that were on this flight…

I’m being told now by United that the flight was cancelled due to weather… a complete lie!!
The pilot came on the tannoy repeatedly to say they had mechanics trying to fix issues.. then the crew ran out of time.

If there’s ANYONE out there that can help me corroborate this PLEASE!
As United are saying I’m not due any compensation now as it was cancelled due to weather… LIES!!

Thanks!

I am an operations specialist at a regional airport. We are currently doing a runway extension and have NOTAMs published stating the runway is closed from 2300 local until 0600. We recently had our FAA inspection and were hit for having excessive lips at the end of the blast pad due to this construction. Our ops team identified this issue prior to the inspection and was told by our management that it would not be an issue because it is an ongoing construction project and is to be expected.… well it was an issue and the Inspector made us close the runway until it was brought back to specs. Now our management has told us to allow regional airlines to land and or depart after 2300 even with the runway closure NOTAM in place, because they are trying to make the airlines happy. However, this raises concerns on our level because we are in theory allowing aircraft to operate on a closed runway. We said that we will cancel or amend the NOTAM and we were told not to touch the NOTAM and leave it in place. Can we be hit by an inspector for allowing this to happen?

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.