MossRoad
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- Aug 31, 2001
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- South Bend, Indiana (near)
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- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
Yeah, I heard that this morning. Stuff happens.My house guest flew to Omaha to her son's house today. Departure was at 7:46AM, they got on the plane, sat for a while and the crew came over the intercom and told them that the FAA's computers were down, and they would have to deplane.
Seems the FAA's NOTAM (Notices To Air Men) system went down, and the FAA grounded all flights until it was back up. She finally got out of KSBN around 10:00AM, got to KORD and her flight to KOMA (Omaha) had been cancelled. She finally got out of there at 2:45PM and into Omaha just before 6:00PM.
I told her since we left for the airport at 6:00AM, I could have driven her to Omaha in the same amount of time and delivered her right to her son's door.
In our case, we flew Allegiant. It only goes to Vegas on Sundays and Thursdays. If our flight got cancelled, they most likely wouldn't have a plane or crew available to come and get us. The plane is based in Vegas, and the flight crew lives in Vegas. My guess is those folks would have to sit there until the plane was repaired, then fly back to Vegas eventually.
So if you asked them what they did at work today, they'd say, put in half a day at work, then sat around South Bend, IN until our plane was repaired.
We had the exact same crew of flight attendants on the return trip Sunday, but different pilots.