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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worse is the people who undertook a new trip starting the 24th or later, when this was already a known big problem. I don’t feel sorry for them.[/quote]

By the 24th, most airlines had their mess cleaned up. If you were flying out of Chicago, new York, or other snowbound cities...yeah. You weren't getting anywhere since the airports were basically closed.
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PP here. We flew home on the 24th. Southwest had already been in the news for days at that point and we were very nervous about our flight being cancelled. When we got to the airport 2/3 of the departure board was cancelled or delayed. Our flight thankfully took off but we were going home. No way I would have undertaken a new trip at that point. When we arrived at DCA, the line to check bags was all the ways outside and delays were rampant. As we walked out I heard them announce a flight cancellation and tell those people to just go home. It was foolish to embark on a new trip at that point.[/quote]

I also flew home on the 24th and into DCA, and maybe it was because it was later, but I did not see those delays at all. But also, the 24th is a very busy travel day under normal circumstances.

Also, SW was a problem, yes. But other airlines were mostly fine. Air Canada an exception. Why would you not try to leave on the 24th on another airline if you are going to be gone several days after all this clears up.

At any rate, this is just shifting the issue--SW is effing p royally, not travelers who are stranded in Mexico or wherever.[/quote]

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