{"id":422349,"date":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fa-actually-do-delay\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:01:00","slug":"im-a-flight-attendant-this-is-what-we-actually-do-during-a-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=422349","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Flight Attendant: This Is What We Actually Do During A Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delays can happen to flights for any number of reasons due to things like technical issues, bad weather, airport congestion or even late-boarding passengers. Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/late-departure-reasons-guide\/\" >delays are often unexpected and unpredictable<\/a>, and of course, any time an aircraft is delayed, it costs the airline money, and a delay can run into thousands of dollars. In the background, ground operations staff will be planning around a delayed flight and want the flight to leave as soon as it is safe and able to do so, depending on the reason for the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabin crew are always keeping busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,496,608,675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-delay","category-flight-attendant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422350,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422349\/revisions\/422350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}