Originally Posted by
mylifenomadic
we leave at 7am tomorrow morning.
It's now 3:30pm and I just now got home. The SLC airport was still suffering from fog problems this morning, yet the flights from Grand Junction and Denver to SLC on Delta and United (also CRJs) were able to depart and land on time. The crew indicated that their aircraft was not equipped to land in the fog in SLC. At 10:30am, they decided to fly the plane to LAX and figure it out from there. Many pax were renting cars and driving to SLC (4.5 hours) so I hitched a ride with a group of them and arrived in SLC at around 2:30pm. I'm assuming the pax diverted to GJT and then LAX will be on the American Eagle flight to SLC arriving at 4:00pm.
What a mess! Why would AA not just charter a coach and transport the pax by road to SLC when it was clear that it would be faster? I understand the aircraft would need to be relocated anyway, but there are flights from GJT to DFW that they could have repurposed them for.
Incidentally, AA was able to deliver my bag to SLC airport yesterday, but couldn't manage to deliver me!