My wife is stuck at DFW today (April 13) and the place is a mad house due to the multiple weather cancellations. She was en route to LAS from a smaller airport close to our home. SO she completed one leg of a 2 leg flight. She is in DFW and her DFW-LAS flight was canceled after she checked in. She really needs to get to LAS for a work conference, but AA has automatically rebooked her for a flight in 2 days. That doesn't work for her as she needs to be in LAS tomorrow morning. I bought for her a ticket on SWA from DAL-LAS early tomorrow morning.

How can she get her bag which are already checked? Should she wait in line for hours at the gates to talk to a gate agent? Go back to the ticket agents out front before security? Give up and wait for the bags to arrive to LAS in 2 days?