QOTD: Got Me Drove

The news cycle has been rife with stories about delayed travel and upended plans thanks to the wild weather being experienced across much of the U.S. and Canada. One harried traveler in Canada chose to rent a car and drive the 2,000 miles (plus a seven-hour ferry ride) to his home rather than wait three or four days in uncertainty for his rescheduled flight.

Here's our question to you: How far would you drive if an airline left you stranded?

Your author had a similar experience at the tail end of a Vegas trip during pre-covid times. With our destination airport socked in, the airline instead deposited a planeload of people at a tiny, three-gate airport with few services and even less information about rescheduling. Making fast friends with the person sitting next to us, my spouse and I shared the cost of a rental car with another person and set out into the snowstorm, hell-bent on making it home sooner than the ‘could be two days, could be three’ promise from the uncommunicative airline. 

It was like splitting an Uber or cab uptown, except with a distance stretching into the hundreds of miles. Everything worked out in the end, though we never saw a cent from the air carrier. Beats loitering in a lonely airport with a hundred other stranded travelers, of course.

How about you? What’s your breaking point in this scenario? Would you hammer it 2,000 miles in a tired rental to be home for Christmas or some other event if there was no guarantee of a rescheduled flight in the next couple of days? Sound off in the comments.

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