Re: Traveling...

Posted by BigKev On 2010/2/13 12:47:15

Well it took me a full 48 hrs to get home with only 3hrs of sleep in mixed in. But it affected all of my close friends that were traveling. One friend took her over 24hrs to get home from Memphis to San Diego, and another is has been trying to get home from Montreal for 3 days.He's currently stuck in Atlanta enroute to San Diego.

The snow on the East coast sure did snarl things. But the snow in the South devastated all the flights. With American, Delta, Continental it shut down all their main hubs. So for example my flight what supposed to leave Newark for a direct flight to LAX. Problem is that Newark typically gets feed with planes from Dallas on American. So they cancelled my flight and I was told it would not be until Sunday or Monday until they had another flight with an open seat for them to stick me in due to the system wide backup.

So I took matters into my own hand and bought was must has been the last open seat of of Newark first thing Friday morning on United which routed me through Denver. Which surprisingly had virtually no snow.

It was almost a riot in the airport. They had to have police in the terminal guarding the ticket agents as they were fearing for their lives.