A paper ticket is worth its weight in gold today since I'm stuck in ST Louis because of bad weather in STL and DTW. All of Northworst's flights were canceled and they protected me on the next available flight which is 1:30PM Saturday. The STL airport was a zoo with hours long lines trying to get to any airline's ticket counters. Even the 800 numbers were busy, told you the wait was 30 minutes or longer, or said they were too busy call back later.

If I had had a paper ticket instead of my e-ticket, I could have gone right to any airline gate and tried to get on as standby.
The NW line was estimated at 2-3 hours so I couldn't even get a ticket to exchange with another airline.

All the airport hotels were sold out and I'm stuck downtown conversing on flyertalk at the hotel business center on a Friday night.

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[This message has been edited by FOOLISHRUNNER (edited 07-28-2000).]