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  Sioux Falls? If so I'm in the same boat, gonna have to call in to family tomorrow. First Christmas without family, but since it took this long I should count myself lucky!
context: Please everyone, just remember if someone freaks out at the airport to film it horizontally and to keep the subject in frame. >
  
  Yea. I bet there is a few people that are going to be spending the night in jail after freaking the fuck out that their christmas will be ruined. >
  
  I will never understand people who get so fucking worked when an annual holiday isn’t perfect.  Like, my dad’s in the fucking hospital.  He’s going to be through Christmas.  And, well, that sucks, but it’s also just one particular day, he’s enjoyed 74 of them and counting, and if this one isn’t a god damn Hallmark special, he’s not too butthurt about that and neither is anyone else.  He’s mostly just glad to be alive.  So yes, it’s a bummer for those whose plans aren’t working out, but can we be adults about this? >
  
  Overworked, overburdened, overstrained, inflation-addled working parents with 3 children (two have RSV, maskless) driving erratically through town in a Bad Decisions Mobile, on which they owe tens of thousands of dollars, and that they're paying $370 for in monthly insurance premiums (state minimums only), their entire lives ONE second away from completely unraveling, BARELY holding it together through the rest of the year by getting excited for the holiday season, where they can watch social media celebrities' "tastefully" and "thoughtfully" put together Christmas-inspired decorations, outfits or food. 
  Because bad decisions is all they've ever known, and because they've been holding it together all year in anticipation of their Christmas time off vacation, they join the millions of Americans attempting to take air travel in a narrow, narrow window of peak season craziness right as an intense storm shuts everything down throughout the country. 
  Do you think these overstressed, credit-addled, inflation-ridden barely-making-ends-meet parents with multiple coughing, sick and expensive young children running around screaming will just smile and say, "understandable, I'll just wait here quietly for 13 hours" as their only vacation (the one they had put all their faith in to be that perfect Hallmark winter wonderland Christmas story) slowly evaporates in front of their eyes?
  I'm impressed we don't see MORE people melting down and losing their cool >
  
  As a flight attendant, when something goes wrong during a time period like this, good luck with 13 hours. If everything begins cancelling, any open seats over the next couple days get instantly filled by the people who know and are quick to make the switch. People like your theoretical scenario? They're almost certainly not going to make it for any point in the weekend. >
  
  
  any open seats over the next couple days get instantly filled by the people who know and are quick to make the switch.
  
  I wish I knew how to get in the know. I don't know any of the rules, this was my first cancellation. I just canceled both of my flights, it was way too hard to figure out how to transfer flights without getting ripped off. >
  
  I can't possibly speak for every airline or situation, but the fastest ways are if you notice right when your flight cancels and finding the first agent you can speak to. All normal agents have the same power and access. Many people tend to go to the closest agent and this leaves long lines nearby.
  If you are not at the airport or all the lines are already full, most regular customers are already on the phone or know how to change their flight quickly through the online system. At the end of the day, the sooner you can talk to someone, the better. >
  
  
  I can't possibly speak for every airline or situation, but the fastest ways are if you notice right when your flight cancels and finding the first agent you can speak to.
  
  I was fortunate enough to already be home, so all I had available was internet & phone. I do feel like my options might have been improved if I'd been at the airport, but I also feel like it would have been chaos. In my case, I was flying out the 23rd and returning the 26th, so adding even a day's delay to my flight out was gonna be too much.
  
  If you are not at the airport or all the lines are already full, most regular customers are already on the phone or know how to change their flight quickly through the online system.
  
  I tried to look online, but all the flights were already booked. Probably because my flight was one of the later ones canceled, as well. I don't know if there were any sort of tricks I could have used. I did find some first class seats available, but Alaska wasn't going to cover the additional price for those. >
  
  Sadly, I don't know the best tricks since I normally fly via an entirely different system from a normal passenger. But I do feel for customers who get stuck in that mess. I hope your Christmas still goes well! >
  
  
  I normally fly via an entirely different system from a normal passenger.
  
  DTS? It's rough >
  
  Infinitely glad I'm not a customer service rep at the airport today. >
  
  I saw a video of a women closing an airport customer service desk and begging everyone to go home if they lived there and she was on the verge of tears the whole time she was talking. I understand that it’s the holidays, but people being blaming the airlines because their planes can’t take off or land safely when the PNW is coated in a sheet of ice and almost everywhere in the United States is experiencing negative temps and blizzard temps is dumb. I’ll hate on airlines when they overbook or understaff, but they’re not purposely trying to devastate the busiest travel week of the year. >
  
  Our Hawaiian Airline flight got diverted to SFO Thursday night because both SeaTac and PDX were shut down due to weather. The operations manager that received our plane in San Fran did an absolutely amazing job by herself playing customer service gate agent, logistician, event manager, and PR rep. Leslie, if you’re out there, you are an absolute rockstar. >
  
  Look on the airline website and find a way to share the kudos directly with them. It does make a difference. >
  
  I plan on doing just that! >
  
  Somewhere out there two guys are having a Planes, Trains and Automobiles like adventure. >
  
  That article doesn't even mention whether any of them play in a polka band. Journalism these days smh >
  
  Polka polka polka is a personal favorite of mine >
  
  I flew to Montana 2 days ago from Houston. Made the first leg to Denver no problem. 
  Once in Denver I got a notice that my flight was delayed 30min. Ok, no big deal. We board on time.
  Then the fun starts. Terrible snowstorm delays takeoff, temps drop to -20. Every time we get an open window to leave, we have to go through a 30 minute de-icing process. We sit on the tarmac for hours, de-icing and waiting. Until the de-icing truck literally freezes itself, and can no longer operate. Unreal irony.
  We are finally towed back to the Denver terminal, where we are told the flight was delayed until 1030am the next morning (it is now 11pm, original takeoff was at 7pm). The flight crew has ran out of time. 
  Because we sat so long, every single hotel room was booked as other flights were cancelled, the line for customer service was at least a quarter mile long (at LEAST). I spent the night with no food, in a freezing airport terminal with hundreds and hundreds of other people.
  Next day comes around, I'm exhausted. We again sit on the tarmac getting de-iced and waiting (they're understaffed this time so everything takes 3x longer) for 3 hours. We finally take off at 230pm and arrive in Montana (2 hour flight) 20+ something hours late.
  Ive always heard the horror stories, but you really can't comprehend how stuck and helpless you feel the whole time unless you experience it. I'm staying in Texas next year. >
  
  Just FYI anti/de-ice fluid REALLY losses how long it's effective for the colder it gets, and also that time gets even shorter if it is actively snowing/raining/sleet. I'm talking like effective for 10-15 min tops, so what I'm saying is from the moment the FIRST fluid is applied they now have 15ish minutes to takeoff, so in reality by the time the whole plane is covered in the fluid which takes some time you really only have 5-10 min to take off.
  Go look up some airline crashes from icing.  Specifically Air Florida Flight 90 it's especially harrowing as on the surface it was very small details missed but ended up killing nearly everyone on board. >
  
  How does that work on the way down then, if the icing only lasts for takeoff? >
  
  For takeoff it's because the precipitation sticks to the plane and will freeze at sub freezing temperatures to an extent. Once in the air and moving, the friction and the aircrafts own anti-ice/de-ice system are usually more than enough to keep ice off. Finally as you climb it gets even colder, and at temperatures around -40 then it's actually to cold for ice to form.
  As for coming in well yeah that's a dangerous one. But there are measures in air the plane can do to clear (engine ice shedding/cycling the flaps, etc) it's generally a good idea to avoid reported areas of severe icing while on approach and descent. >
  
  Frontier cancelled my flight out of Mexico and stranded the entire flight, leaving us completely high and dry two days back.  They offered no assistance at all with re-booking (or vouchers of any kind) and they told us we were being kicked out of the airport and to proceed to customs and immigration for reentry into Mexico.  We were essentially kicked to the curb. The refund option they offered was a fraction of the actual ticket price (not even close to half).  Worst customer experience I have ever received from an airline. >
  
  
  Frontier  
  
  Didn't even need to keep reading. You get what you pay for lol. >
  
  I actually hadn't flown Frontier in over 10 years, had only United as an option where I live.  I had always heard to avoid Spirit, guess I'll add Frontier to that list.  I remember long ago they used to give you a cookie when they fucked you.  Those days are long gone. >
  
  If you have a choice between Spirit and Frontier, I recommend walking. >
  
  Yeah better to just not pretend you're actually getting to where you're trying to go >
  
  A lot of family members will be getting calls and texts saying they were going to surprise them for Christmas but their flight got cancelled. >
  
  Ooh, might as well text a few people that even if I wasn't coming 😂 >
  
  Yes.  I love this. >
  
  I feel sorry for anyone working at the airport during the holidays. I can’t imagine. >
  
  I was trying to decide what salary I’d have to get paid to willingly work airline customer service during the holidays, and settled somewhere around $400k/year >
  
  So an airline Captain? >
  
  Southwest canceled our flights and rebooked us two days later without so much as fucking email! Like, I would have no clue if I hadn’t looked at my boarding passes again before heading to the airport at 4am. I get that bad weather sucks and flights get canceled but like, maybe tell me? >
  
  Check your spam folder. Or maybe you typed your email incorrectly? >
  
  I’ve gotten emails from them about everything else but nothing about my flight being canceled or rescheduled! >
  
  Count my flight as one of the 10,000 - forced to reschedule my flight two days ago, only to complete one leg of my new flight yesterday and get trapped in Missouri.
  Had to wait in line for nearly 3 hours at the airport to rebook with Southwest.  Probably 100 people in line and one customer service rep, and we were one of several lines at the airport trying to rebook.
  Met a guy who was flying to see his 78 yo mother after 7 years of not seeing her, only to have to fly back because his work needed him shortly after Christmas.
  Just hoping that my rescheduled flight does not get cancelled again. Good luck and safe travels to anyone else dealing with this madness! >
  
  
  probably 100 people in line and one customer service rep, 
  
  This is why we need heavier regulation on these airlines. Southwest PROFITS over $5 billion a year.
  They should be fined millions for bullshit like this.  It should regulated that for every pre-defined number of passengers they need X amount of agents on hand at the airport.  
  There should also be a call center rule. More than 10 min hold time and they get fined.
  The fines need to be HEAVY so they don't just become the cost of doing business.
  I had a flight canceled and there was NO ONE working at the airport. >
  
  Your “solution” involves endangering airline employees who may not be able to safely get to work in order to deal with a flight cancellation. That’s likely why there was only one agent, or no agent. 
  Weather is no one’s fault. Weather during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, when a lot of people who don’t normally travel are traveling, is going to cause disruption. >
  
  Most customer agents can do the job from home. They need people answering phones. 
  Yes, weather is not their fault, but lack of a back up plan is.  They should have enough people so its not a 3 hour wait in the phone. They should have hotels with agreements to accept vouchers. Food vouchers.  And rideshare/taxi credit for people to get home if no flights for the night. >
  
  So you’re suggesting they should keep enough people on staff all the time for the few times per year this type of thing happens? How does that make sense? >
  
  Christmas is the highest flight time of the year by FAR. It's not like this came out if the blue >
  
  That means airlines should be hiring Temps to work in a high security zone and deal with people having one of the worst times of the year for just 6 weeks (Thanksgiving through Christmas.)
  Who would opt into that?
  The other option is hiring surge levels of staff and have them do nothing for 46 weeks of the year.
  Its a great fantasy but just as with Black Friday shopping, you as the consumer need to be ready for low staffing levels. >
  
  I mean, they really need more support year round.  Airlines posted record profits for like 6 years in a row before the pandemic.  They have the money to beef it up all the time >
  
  Fortunately, I made it to my final destination with very few issues.
  Unfortunately, my suitcase with Christmas gifts for my entire family did not make it with me. >
  
  This is my situation as well.  Submitted my claim online and still “searching” 3 days later.  We were stuck in Calgary for three days. >
  
  My bags are gone too. It’s been about 24 hours since landing and I am hoping they are recovered. They already paid me $450 but the gifts missing are the real problem. >
  
  I feel for those that are trapped and stuck right now, but it just makes me so glad that I live within driving distance of my family. >
  
  I’m not in driving distance… but we just get together outside the holidays. My family usually comes to see us in February and we go see them in august. The kids don’t mind a mini February Christmas at all! >
  
  That's what Christmas is all about, not gifts, presents, etc, but time spent with family. Kudos to you! >
  
  I got through Chicago right before the storm, pretty lucky! >
  
  We flew out of Nashville to LA, then to Tokyo the day before all of this started. We had no idea this winter weather mess would happen when we planned our trip, but we feel incredibly lucky. >
  
  We waited 2 hours in queue for de-icing, Barely made it onto the runway, and the pilot announces we were 3 mins from turning around to get a new flight crew because of FAA regulations. So lucky, feel bad for everyone else >
  
  I would be crying on the plane. Entertaining a baby for the duration of a flight is hard enough. I can’t imagine adding hours on to it without even leaving the ground >
  
  When we flew to Madrid on the 14th, we got stuck in Newark for 3 days due to every issue imaginable. One of our flights we were on for SIX HOURS without ever leaving the ground, and they canceled the flight at 2am. It was pure hell. >
  
  That’s our situation now. Newark to Lisbon. Sit on the plane for 2 hours, back to the gate to deplane. Then sit on the plane for 4 hours, back to the gate to deplane. At 4 AM they told us that there was a new flight for us - at 11 PM. Can’t get our bags as they are automatically moved to the next flight. Can’t move flights as they are all booked. No one to tell us anything. Wish me luck. >
  
  Every. Single. Child. At the airport had a phlemy cough.  Every one. >
  
  Working in Wyoming. Flight gets cancelled Thursday. Roads to SLC are closed. No flights available Friday. I take off for Denver, Driving. Highway Patrol can’t keep up with people sliding off the road. Saw a little ford upside down. White knuckle the whole way. Coming up in Elk Mountain, high wind warning - noped out of there. Head south to Saratoga. Oh my fuck, Colorado with their winding and steep declines. Ice was handled though. Get to Denver, no rooms. Jk, they got $225 rooms. Make it on the plane - delayed. “Technical Issue”. Made it to Oklahoma. >
  
  the Oregon Trail of our generation >
  
  Just spent 6 hours on the airport floor. Southwest delayed my flight over 20 times instead of just saying it’s cancelled. Then they said they rebooked my flight, checked my account multiple times and never saw a damn thing >
  
  Merry christmas >
  
  I got caught in this. Safe travels folks and happy holidays wherever you're spending them👍 >
  
  Yep. My cousin’s flight got cancelled last night. She doesn’t have any other family to spend it with. Really bummed, but now we’re all sick so I guess it’s for the best that she didn’t come? Merry Christmas, I guess? Now what the fuck do I do with all this food????
  Update: This just keeps getting better. My husband has a faint positive from an at home Covid test and I’m pretty sure my 5yo has the flu as she has a fever and has vomited 3 times and can’t keep anything down. Now if I can only get RSV, we’ve hit the unholy trifecta! Take care ya’ll! >
  
  I am sorry to hear that. Wishing you a better 2023 ahead - enjoy all that extra food 🤷🏼 >
  
  2023 is gonna bring some massive layoffs. >
  
  Could be! >
  
  Our flight Thursday out of Denver was canceled and there were no flights until the 26th so we decided to rent a car and drive to South Carolina.  Luckily I-70 wasn’t bad and we found a flight from St. Louis to Charlotte and avoided the worst of it besides the bitter cold.  It was an adventure but we saved Christmas! >
  
  sounds like hell, you couldnt just wait and see your family like...later? >
  
  A lot of people burn through their work paid vacation time for the holidays. They simply don't have the ability to take another week off later in the year.
  But it can still be reckless and irresponsible to drive through hazardous conditions. You put yourself, other drivers, and possibly emergency personnel at risk. >
  
  If the roads are open, then traveling is ones own decision. It's still a free country... somewhat.
  edit: pussies downvoting me for stating we have the right to travel on open roads...lol >
  
  I actually didn't downvote you until your edit.  Merry Christmas! >
  
  My unfortunate travel delays in Portland, OR:
  12/22: Ice storm incoming, airline cancels all flights after a certain time so I end up staying a night at a hotel close to airport. That night found one last ticket on 12/25 flight.
  12/23: luckily make it back to apartment and do normal routine
  12/24: weather starting to improve and check in on time. Mid day new flight now canceled and grab the last seat on a flight 12/26.
  With the weather in Portland improving over the next few days I would assume that the 12/26 flights sticks and I can finally make it to my vacation but who knows? >
  
  Im sure they are doing their best but aren't miracle workers. >
  
  Right, I’m sure everyone stuck at an airport is flipping out, but they gotta realize that they canceled these flights for everyones safety >
  
  The pilots and/or flight attendants for your flight were likely stuck somewhere else due to weather. >
  
  Yep. That's exactly what happened. I've known a lot of pilots from my time in the Air guard, and lots of times, pilots fly an out and back if it's over 5 hours, or triangle pattern, like say Burbank to Denver, then Denver to Phoenix, then Phoenix to Burbank. >
  
  And before someone says “The cheap airlines laid everybody off and now they don’t have any crew!”, all the spare crew in the world doesn’t do you any good if they’re not where they need to be when. 
  Airlines do have standby crews that sit around waiting for a call to operate a flight when the scheduled crew is unable to make it for whatever reason. But perhaps the standby crews in SFO were already called to operate another flight, maybe they weren’t qualified the type of plane that was available, or perhaps the particular airline flown doesn’t even have standby crews at SFO because SFO may not be a base for them, and airlines don’t have standby crews at every airport they serve.
  People love to complain and blame the airlines, but I’d like to see them do better. There are a million things that have to go right to get one flight off the ground and safely to its destination, much less the thousands that take place every day. >
  
  My flight was cancelled due to “pilot call fatigue”. Which, fair enough, if he’s too tired to fly I don’t really want him flying the plane tbh. But now southwest is trying to deny me a refund to the credit card and give me only southwest credit that can only be used by me (and I didn’t buy the ticket) for something that was entirely their fault. That is what I take issue with, and likely the person who bought the ticket will end up disputing with their credit card… >
  
  Airports are so packed at the moment. I tried to catch a direct flight to see family, but the flight got cancelled. 
  I managed to rebook a flight with a layover to my destination, but my second flight from the layover got cancelled at 1am, so I got marooned in my layover destination. With my airline not able to provide any lodging. 
  Such a crazy time to travel, but I suppose this will make for a good story in the future? >
  
  
  I suppose this will make for a good story in the future?
  
  I hope some of the folks stranded in random ass layover airports for Christmas can find some kind strangers to spend the holiday with. Like wrong text Thanksgiving grandma! >
  
  Sorry to anyone who is stuck. One tip is to go to the lounge and get rebooked by the agents there. They might not let you in if you don't have a membership but I bet they'd do it if you buy a one day pass.
  I've made so many flights by doing this. >
  
  I completely understand the stress involved when being stuck stranded, cold, and wanting to go home. But please PLEASE extend some grace to all the airline employees who have to deal with this madness as well. My heart goes out to the all the workers who have to deal with rude, horrible, awful behavior as a result of conditions that are out of their control + airline policies, etc. We’ve all seen the videos of people screaming and acting a fool because they aren’t getting their way. Do not be that person. Workers are people too and I seriously cannot imagine how bad it must be to handle 1000+ angry people all at once and only being able to do so much to appease them. It’s almost like being thrown to the wolves. So scary. >
  
  I'm just trying to imagine someone being blindsided by the situation. Holiday air travel is always a crap shoot... And then "the storm of a generation" has been in the news for a week... Everyone knew what they were in for when they left for the airport. >
  
  Exactly, people have to take some responsibility somewhere along the line. They can blame the airlines all they want but it’s the risk you take when you don’t factor in weather during winter months. >
  
  Yup, and every staff member who works at the airport is also missing time with their families too. >
  
  I bought my trip on Expedia. Unrealized to me they made it two one way tickets. Outbound flight got cancelled and refunded, no attempt to rebook me to another flight was made. “Figure out your flights yourself”. Everything is sold out except 3k$ per seat. So I ask to refund the return flight. Nope it’s a one way flight, not eligible. No refunds. How tf am I supposed to use those tickets? Not our problem sir. Never use Expedia >
  
  Expedia fucked me over too, they had my booking for my round trip but two of the tickets for my return flight were "missing" and I couldn't check in. Not even for my departure. Was on the phone at the airport for over 2 hours and it finally got fixed a minute after my gate closed, lol. Clerks at United couldn't do anything since it was Expedia's fault. I had to get rebooked, but the rebooking got cancelled an hour later and honestly it was a blessing in disguise as the original flight never took off anyways, as it got delayed and delayed and just cancelled outright. I just went back home and had a couple more rebookings cancelled. >
  
  Approaching 20 hours into my 4 hour late-night layover. Hopefully I can get out before I hit 24 hours. >
  
  Just boarded my flight after 8 hours of delays.  Good luck to everyone trying to rebook or still waiting for flights. >
  
  YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD SOLVE SOME OF THE SEASONAL TRAVEL PROBLEMS IN THE USA????
  SOME HIGH SPEED TRAINS FOR FUCKS SAKE. 
  obviously it wouldn’t be ideal for people having to go from Florida to Washington, but people hopping 3 or 4 states over even would still be better. I wish we had more options for travel than Air and Car. >
  
  Pretty sure trains would have had a hard time in the blizzard conditions as well.  
  Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more travel options and a high speed rail would be good, but it isn't a panacea  for travel.  It has its drawbacks also. >
  
  Trains deal with that easy the track is made for it and you just plow a giant plow in front of the train >
  
  My frustration with this situation is not that my flight was cancelled. Southwest is trying to say that they will not refund to the credit card due to the “terms and conditions of the wanna get away fare.” Which I would find understandable if my flight was cancelled due to weather. But my flight was cancelled due to “pilot call fatigue”, so the pilot decided he was too tired to fly. Which hey, fair enough. But for them to decide to not refund my money when the cause of my cancellation was them overworking their pilots, that’s just ridiculous. And that was after all day of them continually changing the take off time. (And through all of this, I’ve still never yelled at a gate agent, anyone who does really needs to think about their reactions)
  Likely a credit card dispute is in the future… >
  
  The pilot probably got caught up in the rolling delays which caused their fatigue >
  
  That is what I assume happened as well. I don’t fault the pilot in that at all. >
  
  My son got the day off from his major delivery company because the cargo plane couldn't arrive locally. (We're in warm weather)
  This comes during a normally busy time of the year, and when he might make a few dollars extra through overtime. >
  
  I set people up on catheters (people who can't pee) and I had to tell many many people this week I couldn't guarantee their delivery. Like, FedEx is going to try but if they can't get a plane out of California into Kansas City, you aren't getting the package >
  
  This is probably one of the main reasons I will never make plans to go anywhere that requires much traveling for Christmas. >
  
  Unfortunately many of us don’t live anywhere near family that we only get to see a couple times a year >
  
  Respectfully, try and pick a different time. I know one family that has Christmas in July. School is out, everyone knows what week it is for work vacation requests, etc. Nothing is going to work for everyone yet this seems to work better than winter travel >
  
  Respectfully, this time is busy BECAUSE it's even people's schedules best align, so not necessarily an option for everyone. Not sure anyone would find that tip useful since it's so obvious too... "Don't have the problem and you won't have the problem" >
  
  Mother natures “Fuck Your Holidays” to the entire country of Murrica. >
  
  Please remember that every plane that flies has a ground crew work in the freezing ass cold on Christmas to get you where you want to go. I know "its their job I'm not thanking them" is a common response but try to think about the people who make it happen on christmas. >
  
  It's shit like this that makes me eternally greatfull that all my holiday travels entail is walking across the street. >
  
  But that means the rest of the year you have to live close across the street from family. >
  
  I just imagine a literal Everybody Loves Raymond situation lol >
  
  How does travel insurance protect you from delays/cancellations? >
  
  It doesn’t. It protects you from changing your flight to a more desirable time as a blizzard rolls though. 
  A few years ago I watched the weather and was able to change my flight without experiencing delays. >
  
  Many airlines have dropped change fees. >
  
  Dick is living in 2002. >
  
  🎶Glory days🎶 >
  
  I'm scheduled to fly tomorrow.  We booked on Christmas day a while back since one of our family can't make it on Christmas Eve or day (an emergency dispatch worker) anyway and we were going to celebrate a couple days later anyway.  Figured Christmas day might be a cheaper and less crowded travel day. 
  No idea what to expect now. >
  
  My sibling was to fly in from Seattle but the flight got cancelled, they don’t know if they can come at all. It’s crazy. >
  
  My parents were supposed to fly in this morning from Seattle to Phoenix. Their flight got cancelled. Neither place has bad weather. Yet somehow my cousin could fly from the east coast to Phoenix? Idk. But I'm super bummed. There are no flights out until Tuesday. >
  
  Seattle's weather was horrible yesterday (ice so bad the whole bus system shut down), they're probably still recovering from that. >
  
  Probably. But my friends boyfriend had a flight from Paine field to Phoenix that was even delayed. I know I should be more understanding, the weather has been terrible everywhere for days, I'm just really bummed about my first Christmas without my parents. >
  
  Better than being featured as one of the hundreds of passengers by mentour pilot in a few months >
  
  I wonder how many customer service reps called in sick today. >
  
  lots >
  
  Yay, to a Christmas alone 🙄
  Hope everyone is safe. Shit happens >
  
  Honestly, anyone who's been following any of the news about air travel this year could have seen this coming, even without the massive winter storm causing more problems. I get the desire to travel during the holidays, but hopefully most people had already tempered their expectations. >
  
  Just stop harassing the clerks in the airport. You stupid fucks give them so much shit when they clearly have no responsibility  for when flights are canceled or delayed. So disgusting the way they are treated by these ignorant fucks. >
  
  Yep. They're trying their best with what they've got. >
  
  My Arizona > Detroit flight was canceled. Planning on making it back home in 2 weeks and saving $500. I can’t be THAT upset 😂 >
  
  Yup. I got stuck in DFW for a while. >
  
  We boarded our plane this morning. I have UC and was having such a bad flare up going on, it was everything to get wife + 1y old there. We beat the bad weather!
  But our pilot didn’t show, so we were kicked off the plane. My brother had passed away suddenly this year and due to other siblings situations, we were going to be the only ones there for my parents. I didn’t want them to spend Christmas alone for the first time.
  When I got to the counter after being moved twice to different help areas, I saw the front desk lady was done with patience. So I thanked her for a rebooked flight in a few days & didn’t press
  Our stroller and carseat were left in the rain & socked. Lovely.
  I’m so tired, I couldn’t be angry. It sucked traveling this holiday year >
  
  Merry christmas >
  
  Hopefully the cancellations will make a parent remember that they forgot Kevin at home >
  
  Currently one of those people. Scheduled to fly out of SD at 6:00 am this morning and my flight was canceled at 3:30 am. Went to the airport anyway and spent 5 hours on the phone with airline company where they rebooked me for a 4 leg, 2 day trip back to SoCal 2 days from now (the agent helping me in the phone was an absolute Saint and I let her know as much, it took a ton of work).
  Told my family that I'd be missing Christmas with them,  and they ended up pooling some money and got me two flights today to SoCal so I can see them in time! Now I'm trying to get a hold of original airline to cancel the rebooked flight and hopefully get a refund or a voucher that I can gift to my family.