Travel Woes...

I have been trying to send Val to Oregon since Friday. For some reason the weather decided to warm up on Friday to about 40 degrees which created DENSE fog which effectively shut down our airport. No worries, they re-booked him on a later flight that same day... until that flight couldn't land and was diverted to Green Bay. By then we had to go for the next day because they won't put unaccompanied minors on late flights... so 7am Saturday it was. Saturday came and the flight was canceled (no flight crew or aircraft because nothing was being allowed to land still)... so we re-booked again for today at noon. Got to the airport at 11am to find that the wind and snow that blew in today had shut the airport down AGAIN. Gusts of up to 50 mph and blowing snow and the FAA says, "CANCELED!!!"

The ticket agents were very kind and said that the best option was a larger plane leaving out of Green Bay tomorrow morning. They upgraded Val to first-class and gave him a food voucher for his return trip, which they pushed out 4 days without a change fee. I'm feeling like he'll get off the ground tomorrow as long as MSP is clear. It just means that we have to be up and out the door by 4am to drive the hour to Green Bay to catch the plane which leaves at 6:40am. Its really going to fuck with my day but oh well.

Hope everyone enjoys their holidays and doesn't run into travel nightmares like these.

ciao!

Posted by Lexy at December 23, 2007 01:56 PM