I’ve long wondered why airports don’t have movie theaters, arcades, and private sleeping spaces for exactly those times when travelers have hours long layovers.

They then proceeded to divert the flight to the wrong airport once it finally did takeoff.

One time I was flying to Atlanta from Richmond and there was some kind of weather issue. But they did not cancel the flight just delayed it… by like eight hours or something. Everyone was cancelling, but the desk told me that I was welcome to wait since the flight was not cancelled. I couldn’t afford a hotel so I did that. I was the only person in the airport. I bought a book and watched everything shut down around me. I sat alone and watched the Zamboni thing come by to clean the floors. Eventually the guy who waves the glowing orange wands on the runway came in and told me that the flight was coming in, but that they might wind up cancelling it. Awhile later a random Frontier (I think it was Frontier at least) came to the desk and started booting up her computers. Apparently there was another guy who waited because he just showed up out of nowhere.

The attendant told me that the crew was based out of Atlanta and wanted to get back home, so the plane would be heading back and that we were the only two passengers. We were both upgraded to First Class. I could tell that the attendant was tired and hated that she had to stay at work until this flight arrived. So I stood at the gate and asked, stone-faced: “Are we boarding by zone?” She laughed HARD.

Wound up passing out before I even finished my complimentary cocktail and missed out on the First Class experience. Woke up as we began landing procedures to the other guy surround by attractive flight attendants having a great time.

I’ve flown Frontier several times without issue. The one that always gets me is Volaris in Mexico. Both seem to use the same style of web application / mobile app (horrible) but at least they use Airbus planes?

Frontier handles deportation flights.

That’s United for me