shout out to the stranded
 

Happy Winter Storm Pax Northeast II!

Got rerouted from yesterday afternoon to this morning. Original flight was an hour and 45 late due to late arriving aircraft due to weather, so I would have missed my connection… except that flight ended up departing 3 1/2 hours late anyway.

So instead of being asleep in 60 degree weather, I'm thinking about a taxi back to the airport in, I don't even know, zero degree weather.

Plan for the day: depart 8am Central Time, an hour in O'Hare, switch airlines to Philadelphia, 40 minutes in Philadelphia, arrive Orlando 4pm Eastern.

Anyone want to place bets I won't make my 8pm dinner reservation in Winter Garden?

At least I didn't have to spend the night in some horrible airport in the South in a snowstorm with an earthquake.

Edit (Always preview post, sorry): I called airline #1 (also original airline) but the wait time was an hour. When I called airline #2 to ask what things looked like, the phone agent said everything looked fine and if the airport were inaccessible all flight would have been cancelled. Um, what? No middle ground there? Either "it's fine" or "the airport is closed"? OK. I guess I'll ask when I get to the airport. The airport with the fake wifi, where my phone doesn't work.

Anyone else?

I got stranded a few days ago in Hong Kong because of fog. I was flying to PVG and my flight got delayed from around 11pm to 5am... For some reason the captain (or whoever was in charge) decided we should wait onboard the aircraft! A night from hell aboard a a320.

I was due to fly to Curaçao on Thursday: here to PHL to MIA to CUR. Couldn't get to PHL, no seats available that day on other routes to MIA, no way to get to CUR before Monday. Cancelled the entire trip - didn't seem worthwhile for the short time I'd have there.

Ended up rebooking the winter vacation that I cancelled last year: same flights to FLL, same motel. Last year's cancellation was due to surgery, not weather.

I ended getting home a day and a half late from SNA, but through creative rerouting and some stand-by luck, I got a four leg flight home yesterday. Not a big deal, as it happens a handful of times every year.

Insofar as sleeping in airports, ain't gonna happen. They have hotels for that.

I had an Air Asia flight delayed at MFM (Macao) in February 2005 for 17 hours, but I'm not too sure why. In fact, the plane was coming from KUL and first landed at HKG, then continued on to MFM. Meanwhile, other MFM flights were taking off and landing...

And I have been rerouted on the way out of MCO too, now. Weird.