actually, united
good morning y'all.
only about 30 min of the 2 hour delay was weather. the rest of it was boarding, taxiing out to the runway, the failure of one of the jet engines to start...going back to the terminal, attempts by the mechanics to fix it, waiting for a new plane and then flying home. When the pilot says "the other plane wouldn't have made it to birmingham" a short delay seems somehow less significant...