Hello All,

I flew from LGA to IAD on Sat morning at 7am & our return flight was to be yesterday at 7:15pm. This was on United Express operated by Mesa Airlines on a CJ 7. Saturday was fine checked in online with no checked in baggage. All weel, except teh 6am departure was cancelled due to mech prolems so we had a few extra & angry people aboard.

On the return however faith was against us, no online seating available, my girlfriend & I had one checked in bag (due to the bottle of wine we were bringing from Virginia to NYC). Here is the fun part, first flight oversold- the gate is a zoo, then some problem error signals in the cockpit about flaps not working, 1 & 1/2 delay then we start rolling & stop message from flight deck, "ground stop" due to heavey traffic over LGA. Another 1 hour delay, wheels up finally at 9:30 and I was already vconsidering taking Amtrak. Not going to mention the details about the long wait for bags at LaGuardia.

Here is my question: Is this normal to hold/ delay small planes? Most likely, my home airports are LGA & JFK, (I live close to both of them).

btw, have no status with United I am a LH M&M m ember & lady friend a general United member.

just wanted to get this off my chest, thanks for reading, I feel beeter nw that I vented.