Our flight was delayed by about 30 minutes to get out of the gate. Apparently, there were not enough cleaning crew to clean the equipment. In any case, we pushed out of the gate amid heavy rains, lumbered our way to the end of the runway and with the engines springing to full life, started hurtling down the active runway.

It was then that I got this message from Delta that we will be delayed by 5 more hours (till 9:25PM).

A few seconds later, quickly climbing thru the air, I was still scratching my head – What was that all about?