Christmas Week Storm/Deep Freeze

WayOutWestMom
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:11:14 +0000

RE: the luggage could be a variety of different reasons for the luggage. A few years ago, a storm closed DFW when I was trying to get back to NewMexico from CT. I flew into Philadelphia on a small local flight and found out I couldn’t go any farther and wouldn’t be able to fly out for 1-3 days. I asked if I could return to my airport of origin so I could stay with my daughter until I could get all the way home, but was told if I did, the airline wouldn’t honor the rest of my reservation. Ultimately I ended up at a smaller airport in VA where my connecting flight was cancelled three times. And my luggage was nowhere to be found. Finally got home very, very, very late the next day/early the day after on another airline via a totally different route and my luggage was at final destination in a big pile just like in the photo from Denver.

The funniest part was that I ran into a family I had seen in the Philadelphia airport who were also heading back to my hometown. They had managed to get on a flight to DFW with the original airline the next morning, but then got stranded in the DFW airport and ended up renting a car to drive 10 hours home. They were at the airport trying to find their luggage which had flown on without them.