Rolling delay

How it is used

Used when successive updates extend a wait rather than announcing one fixed delay at the start.

Example sentences

1. A rolling delay pushed our departure from two o'clock to nearly six.

   The departure estimate changes several times during the same disruption.

2. During the rolling delay, we kept checking the screen before leaving the gate area.

   Repeated updates make an earlier departure estimate unreliable.

Common collocations

• experience a rolling delay
• rolling delay updates

Related terms

• delayA situation in which a flight, train or other service leaves or arrives later than planned; as a verb it means to make something late.
• rebookTo book again, especially to move a passenger to a different flight, train or date after a cancellation, delay or missed connection.

More terms: Delays, Cancellations & Connections

• cancel
• connecting flight
• layover
• gate change
• missed connection
• compensation
• overbooked
• transit
• ETA
• stopover
• self-transfer
• minimum connection time