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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
I think they have a new variation on calling in sick.
Tonight leaving vegas the pilot called the lady running the gate, 10 minutes before boarding that it was too hot, so they needed to remove 30 passengers, and replace the weight with fuel. So the clerks at the gate went through trying to find 30 passengers. They only got about 8, in large part because they had no idea when they could fly them back.
They then picked out the other 22 passengers and started to make plans to send them back to a hotel. After finishing up that process the pilot called the gate again to say they are trying to get everyone on this flight so they are waiting for the sun to go down and cool the temperature down.
In the end they waited about 2 hours, run a bunch of staff and passengers around then decided to take off.
Meanwhile not a single flight in the terminal outside of the AC flight was delayed.
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The bolded part does not make sense, if it was a density altitude issue preventing them from departing safely they would not remove weight (pax) and then add weight (fuel) to take off. They would have just removed passengers and been done with it.