Wow, so things got ugly late in the day yesterday.
Diana's Toledo-based relatives, two aunts and two cousins, got stranded in Detroit (the shittiest place in the world to get stranded, if you ask me), when Spirit (who the fuck is Spirit?) cancelled their flight to Ft. Myers. No alternatives, just a big middle finger to the 150 people on that flight. The aunts, infrequent travelers and not accustomed to airport drama, figured that their only option was to get refund and drive down. The next flight Spirit could put them on was in five days. Are you fucking kidding? Planes in Detroit don't go to other cities?
Diana's dad called them and explained that you have to be a dick, and eventually they got them on Amtrak to Chicago, and this afternoon they'll depart O'Hare. The one cousin has bailed because completely.
Meanwhile, Gonch and his wife are having a kid-watching melt down, and are busting ass to fix that.
Seriously... we don't need this kind of drama.
As a frequent traveler, Detroit's newly renovated airport is one of the nicest in the US, IMO.
Still, that does suck about Spirit! I hope things work out with Gonch, too!!
Interesting article on Spirit Airlines last week in the nytimes
"Don't Come Crying to This Airlines"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/business/29spirit.html?scp=1&sq=SPirit%20airlines&st=cse
Spirit is a budget airline and sucks big time. DTW is a Northwest hub, so anyone flying them through DTW has a safe bet.
And yeah...the old north terminal and the 1950's south terminal suck. The new terminal is so much nicer. I'd rather be laid over there than in some out terminal in St. Louis like I was on a my personal trip from hell. No food, bare floors and walls...we were there for 3 hours.