Originally Posted by danleo

My flight from Wash Dulles to EWR on one of those small commuter jet planes, which I hate, was delayed and canceled. What an absolute nightmare. The flight is only 40 mins or so and I could have drove the darn trip. It was the final leg of my trip so I was stuck.

I get to the gate and it shows delayed 1 hour. Great. Then after 1 hr, delayed 2 hrs. Great. Finally we board and plane taxis. Something didn't seem right as we were taxing forever and went way out to the no mans land part of the runways. The pilot comes on the speaker and tells us that we are delayed again for 45 mins! After 1 hour goes by the pilot comes on the speaker again and we hear this bs "I don't know what they told you at the terminal, but we just got word from operations that this flight has been canceled, we are returning to the terminal".

The passengers on board almost rioted. They were yelling and pounding their fists on the ceiling.

Totally ridiculous and no communication from the airline.