Now our protagonist is trapped at the Philly airport until 7pm (it is currently 9:45am) because his flight was cancelled while he was in route to the airport. Didn’t even have the decency to cancel this thing while I could hang out at the hotel or arrange to hang onto my rental longer.
Said it was “weather” but there is no weather of note here or in Chicago. Additionally, there’s not a bunch of cancelled flights on the board. Just this one and some Denver flight on another airline. Tried to put me on a flight that left sooner but had a 6 hour layover in St Louis’ disgusting little airport and got me in hours after the next available direct flight that leaves at 7pm.
Traveling for work is glamorous! Also the Private Equity version of Southwest blows and no one should fly them. Since the “New Southwest” became a thing I can’t recall a trip that wasn’t delayed, diverted, cancelled, overbooked, or otherwise enshittified.