Sometimes it's not actually the airline's fault. It's yours.

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I had recently boarded an American Airlines flight at Phoenix when one of my own travel pet peeves crept upon me. Boarding was complete, the aircraft door was closed, all the ground service equipment I could see through the window had been pulled away, and we were ready to go. But go we didn’t; instead, we sat there on the ramp, waiting. Minute after minute ticked by, without any acknowledgement of the delay by the pilots.

This is a quirk, I find, relatively specific to A

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