A month or so ago I was doing a quick MR...LEX-ATL-MCO-ATL-LEX. Everything was going fine until after everybody was boarded on the ATL-MCO segment and waiting for the "turn ya cell phones off the door is closed".... instead the First Officer comes on the PA and says that the Captain is stuck in traffic due to I-75 being closed and he would keep us informed. 15 minutes or so later he comes back on and says the captain had checked in from the employee parking lot...and should be on the plane in about 15 minutes....being on a MR and only having about an hour in MCO I was a little concerned. But I thought the same plane turned right back and was my flight back to ATL.

Once the Captain got on board we made record time to MCO. Once we parked I dashed off the plane and grabbed the first GA i could find...sure enough I was on the same plane back to ATL...the GA checked me in while boarding the flight...I scarfed down a quick Nathans Hot Dog...boardrd and the flight left less than 15 minutes late for ATL. We landed in ATL "on time".

Just wonder what kind of issues that Captain might have gotten from DL for being late?

Not meaning to hijack this thread but I thought it was close enough.