re: Longest you’ve ever been stuck in an airport?

I’ve seen this movie

7 hours... Was a connecting flight and we had a 2.5 hour layover, thought great we can eat, get some drinks, rest before the next one. The flight was delayed an hour due to no pilot, then another hour, then finally rebooked to a different gate. Had I known it would be 7 hours, maybe I would have left the airport but the whole, hour, then hour, then whatever made it impossible.

The worst was probably Atlanta waiting on a flight to BR that nearly didn’t leave. But 10 hours later we were in the air, well after midnight. Ever since then, if we get to be around 9-10 pm and still no signs of departing after several hours delay, I’ll try to get on a morning flight. Suck it up and get a room and maybe a good night’s sleep and try again tomorrow.

Not a delay, but I happened to be in the air, London to Baltimore, when WOW Airlines abruptly folded. None of the crew had a job anymore when we landed. Anybody who had a flight booked was SOL with WOW.

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happened to be in the air, London to Baltimore, when WOW Airlines abruptly folded.

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had Puerta Plata layovers the month the Birgenair flight crashed leaving there, got to know the crew relatively well as they were there all month and we were there once a week, their company went bankrupt as they were inbound and just told them to stay put and they’d figure out a charter to get them out of there

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One time we were flying home from Naples. We had a connecting flight in Paris. Because our plane was delayed leaving that third world airport in Naples we missed our flight in Paris. We didn’t have to stay in the airport, but the airline put us up at a rinky dink hotel near the airport where we couldn’t even change clothes because we had no luggage

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Just be glad you were in Europe, I think the EU has some strong traveler protections that are way better than what airlines offer state side. Even though they only put you in the a French equivalent to a L’motel de Six. I guess you were expecting to stay at the Paris Ritz or the Le Belgrand.

Probably DFW for me and it was ~8 hours or so if you include the 3 hr flight i took from DFW-EGE that diverted back to DFW once we were over Colorado due to snow, cancelled, next flight cancelled, and then found a connecting DFW-PHX-DEN that had a 3 hour maintenance issue in PHX even though it was the same plane.

I have a feeling some people tomorrow are going to have a long day trying to connect or fly through Charlotte

In the airport: 8 hour layover in Doha

Stuck: 12 hours after scheduled departure after Air France cancelled our flight. Rebooked us on Emirates and gave us a hotel for the day (5am to 5pm).

15 hrs Heathrow in London. Welcome to Hell.

I spent the night on the floor of the Denver airport on a layover in July 2024. It was the computer glitch that grounded flights all over the country. I think I was there about 14 hours, IIRC. My checked bag never made it to Seattle. I had to buy clothes for a 3-day stay. My bag was shipped to my house and I got it three days after I got home.

I don’t fly a lot so I learned some lessons. Don’t check bags if you can pack light. Air tags on all checked luggage.