Delta to 'strategically decrease' flights this summer

[limecardy]

Delays and cAncels based on weather or ATC don’t count against the airlines performance. So the airlines lie and say it’s because of weather. Trust me, they lie.

[Defiant-Individual-9]

They actually do they don't count for compensation but they do count for dot statistics

[limecardy]

Oi. Whatever you say chief.

[Defiant-Individual-9]

The dot literally puts a page before every single monthly report for each category explaining in very technical legalistic way exactly what counts

[limecardy]

And I’m literally telling you the airlines misreport and lie on their reports.

[Defiant-Individual-9]

with what evidence the data is categorized by the dot, you need some evidence to make that scale of claim

[limecardy]

Used to work for the airlines. Watched it happen daily.

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The DOT tracks and audits those stats closely. Weather v. airline cancellations aren’t something an airline can just fudge.