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where your flight is coming from
Tony:
If you're getting on the plane at a hub, the best way is to call the airline because even if the flight has the same number, it may change aircraft & gates when it arrives at the hub. That said, after September 11th, the airlines are suspicious of calls asking for that type of information. If you're catching the plane at the end of a spoke, it's pretty easy to figure out by looking at the gate assignment if you know the major hubs that your airline uses. For example: in Tampa and going to Detroit on Northwest departing at 2:00 pm on a B757, I know that Northwest's hubs are Detroit, Memphis and Minneapolis. I would look on the Northwest web site for the departure gate in Tampa of my flight. Then I'd check for flights from each of those hubs arriving an hour or two prior to my departure time and look for a match of the Tampa gate assignment and aircraft type for my outbound flight. I then monitor the inbound flight. I often do this to be sure that the plane that makes up my flight departed on time. If it didn't, then it's time to start thinking about "plan B." Hope this helps. Bob www.InternetTravelTips.com "Tony Rice" wrote in message ... It's easy enough to figure out where your flight is coming from if it's making a stop at your originating airport and keeping the same flight number as it continues on to your destination. Any suggetsions on how to figure out where your flight is originating from? This is handy information to have when cutting through the mountains of BS gate agents can be so adept at generating when there is a delay, especially when it's lots of delays masking an eventual cancellation. It be great if there were a website you could lookup the tail number that the airline has assigned to a particular flight and then find out where that aircraft REALLY is. |
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where your flight is coming from
"Robert Cowen" wrote in message nk.net... Tony: If you're getting on the plane at a hub, the best way is to call the airline because even if the flight has the same number, it may change aircraft & gates when it arrives at the hub. That said, after September 11th, the airlines are suspicious of calls asking for that type of information. I had a delay waiting on "inbound a/c" due to weather delay at DTW on NW earlier this year. The departure time kept creeping up, so I eventually asked the gate agent where the aircraft was coming in from. His response was, I can't tell you for security reasons. Complete B.S. in my book. While NWA is my preferred US domestic carrier, this was the worst gate agent I had dealt with in a long time. He also forgot to do the elite upgrades that were waitlisted and instead sold the FC seats to coach pax at $50 a shot b/c coach was overbooked. Needless to say, there were several upset elites, including myself, sitting in the back on this flight. I then called the Elite Line on my mobile and they were much more helpful (was coming in from MKE and mechanical). Turned out the inbound was later than what was published and the gate agent didn't want to say what the actual delay was, but instead kept increasing it 15 minutes at a time with no announcements. At the same time, looking at the arrivals board at DTW, no inbound arrivals were listed to the assigned gate. I suspect the arrival accidently dropped off after being delayed. As we boarded the flight, the pilot and FA's then apologized for the late inbound because of mx problems at MKE. But anyways, these days, it seems some people are quick to say "security reasons" instead of taking the time to provide an honest, accurate answer. Best, Steve |
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