Been lucky so far…
Since I fly Northwest just about every single week, I naturally keep up with news about flight cancellations. Stories like this one cause me to check flight status early and often.
However I’ve so far been pretty lucky. Northwest canceled over 800 flights at the end of June due to pilots running out of hours to fly, thanks to all of the air traffic control problems earlier in the month. I skipped that hassle thanks to having booked a flight on July 1 (it saved me about $300, too).
The few times I’ve been stuck with no flight, while disappointing and inconvenient, haven’t worked out all that badly. Only twice have I ever been stuck in a stop-over city (Minneapolis); the first time NW got me into a hotel that had jacuzzis in all of the rooms and the second time I had about 5 hours to go shopping at the Mall of America. All other times I’ve been “at home” — meaning someplace I could get back to easily, where I had my own bed, clothes, and food — so those certainly weren’t problems.
Northwest doesn’t give super-fancy upgrades like the one that Molly got, but so long as they get me home to Punky regularly, what I’ve gotten is all I need.
