Originally Posted by econprof

My wife and kids have been stranded at LGA since 6 pm yesterday. AA4555 to CMH was delayed for mechanical reasons and at 10:30 pm was finally postponed until this morning when the flight attendant timed out.

AA put them up in Queens for the night, but now the flight has missed its rescheduled departure of 6:45 am.

What sort of compensation might we expect from AA? This seems pretty egregious to me, especially when there were likely flights on other airlines they could have been rebooked on last night.