sucks!Actually, it wasn't so bad today but it sure wasn't great.
As we watched the 7 am Frontier flight take off, we learned that our 7 am United flight was delayed because our crew wasn't available.
Why weren't they available? The rumor was that they overslept. Someone suggested that they had been partying in Aspen last night. The gate agent tried to make it sound like they were stuck in Denver due to weather but that alibi had all kinds of holes in it, especially since they showed up before any flights landed.
By the time they did show up, the winds had picked up to such an extent that we now had a weather hold.
Tail winds. Can't take off in Aspen if they're too high.
So we were 3 hours delayed, an hour and a half of which was spent sitting on the runway. Our Santa Barbara flight was also delayed out of Denver so it still looked like it might work but no, when the winds finally dropped and the pilot gunned it and got us off the ground, it was too late.
Not to worry, though, we got on the next SB flight, which had been full but wasn't any longer (other delays in other cities?) and thus we arrived in SB a mere 3 hours late.
Not bad considering that it's a holiday weekend and DIA was a mob scene . . .
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