Originally Posted by
gernabae
I would say the prospects of getting out today via LGA look much worse than I would have expected. Already a couple cancellations, and there are currently a couple (soon to be a few) dozen aircraft waiting to takeoff, and traffic not moving due to fixes being closed to WX. At least with EWR you can be a bit creative to get to ORD.
This. UA canceled seven flights between LGA and ORD today. I realize it is too late now, but had the OP gone to EWR, he could have made UA3425 EWR-PIT and UA1574, PIT-ORD.