We went on a trip earlier in the month, we missed all the cancellations but the people who were traveling with us got stuck at LaGuardia overnight.
That had to suck. Airlines just aren't staffed up to handle the amount of traffic.
Shut down the economy and it causes all kinds of unintended consequences.
last weekend our 6am non stop flight was canceled. They notified us at 2:30am after we had already booked an airport hotel and spent the night.
The airline auto booked us on the next best available flight, a 8:10am flight with connections thru Atlanta, separate middle row seats for me and my wife
that flight was then delayed until 5:40pm. We went back home, out of pocket for the hotel. Around noon we were notified that flight was delayed until 8:40pm meaning we would miss the connecting flight in Atlanta.
Got on the phone, 2 hour wait time with Delta. Went to the airport, stood in line for 40 minutes, guy told us to take the 8:40PM flight, spend the night in Atlanta, they would give us a comped hotel, catch an early flight out next day. So we hand around the airport waiting for our 8:40pm flight
It gets canceled around 7:30 so I call Delta on a service phone and the woman says there is an 8pm flight to Orlando and I can catch a flight to Atlanta from there, we go to the Orlando desk, get setup on that plane, it gets delayed until we are landing about 15 minutes before the Atlanta flight takes off. Our seats are the last row of the plane, wife is stressing out, we hop up and cut in front of people apologizing that we have like 10 minutes to get on another flight. Luckily the Atlanta flight is delayed too and we get on. Arrive in Atlanta around midnight. As the Delta rep where we go to get the hotel voucher. She says there is a long line. That was an understatement. Probably 200 people in line to either get tickets or vouchers. About an hour in line a woman says no more hotel rooms to give out, you have to find one on your own. Now its somewhere around 1am and we have to be back at the airport at 5am so we're like screw it.
Next day we catch a flight, they were able to seat us together and got to where we needed to be on time but as soon we got settled, I ended up drinking 4 screwdrivers just to get things right with the world again. All told though I paid for a hotel room I didn't need, a hotel room that I couldn't cancel, and a car rental I couldn't pick up.
We just got our lost luggage delivered about 2 hours ago from our return flight yesterday.
flying is no cold water stream bidet of happiness , I will tell you that.