Yeah, it was a nightmare! My personal commuting disaster all stemmed from JB 182 being delayed from SAN to JFK for two hours, so I decided to go next door to the SAN-PHL flight followed by a connection to LGA. Many months ago when I decided that enough was enough - NO MORE SAN-PHL-LGA commutes because of all the hassle with that stupid airport Philthydelphia.
Well, what do we know, the same type of crap happens (it's my bad luck). The AWAC flight from BTV-PHL that was supposed to take us to LGA was delayed quite a bit due to the runway closure and the gate's status updates of course love to tout "just 10 more minutes..." and 10 minutes later say again "oh, just 10 more minutes again"...continuously through the night giving passengers false hope. So, I knew that with the 1 hour holding patterns into PHL wasn't going to get my PHL-LGA flight going, not to mention the rumored PHL 3 hr taxi times. At 9:00pm the gate agent was telling passengers at the gate in PHL that the flight from BTV was leaving BTV when in fact it had not even boarded, after I checked the computer. It didn't even leave BTV until 10:30pm.
So... I inquire about taking the train from Philthy to Lagarbage... $68. Not within my budget. So I go to the gate and ask passengers if anyone wanted to split the expense renting a car... because secretly I knew they were NOT going to LGA that night. We all rented a car together... complete strangers mind you... and made it to LGA in 1 hr 50 minutes. Had these passengers not gone into the car with me they would've been stranded in PHL... and I would've spent way more money for the rental car. In the end, one of the passengers expensed it to his company so we all ended up with a free car ride to LGA! Sorry for the poor grammar... I'm exhausted from working today and I'm about to enjoy some dinner.
Did I mention west-east coast COMMUTING SUCKS?!?!!?!!!
(oh well, it's worth it)