I feel sorry for those trapped on 1676. I was trapped on 1776. The big difference - our flight was quite empty and so the atmosphere was much more bearable. I contemplating trying to jump on 1676 but it looked like a total mad house at the gate and decided an empty but later plane would be far more pleasant.

Scheduled Departure: 7:15PM
Scheduled Arrival: 11ish PM
Boarded: 9:15 PM
Pushed Back: 11:30PM?
De-iced and took off at 3:30AM
Landed at 7:20AMish

So time butt was in seat if I have math correctly was just shy of 9 hours.

We had a bit of a party atmosphere in the front of the first class section for the first few hours, but after a few drinks, one of the guys up front started to get a bit grouchy which killed the mood.

Flight crew was fantastic: Did everything in their power to make us comfortable; the pilot kept coming back through the plane and would talk one-on-one with us.

But boy was IAH one big giant ClusterF* last night.