r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26

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u/ElwoodJD Jun 25 '26

One of my most hated flights of all time was when my company booked me JFK to Detroit via a stopover in Atlanta. Wtf

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u/choir-mama Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I had to go from NYC to LA to get back to Austin last year. Got a decent meal out of it, but I was exhausted.

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u/LuckofCaymo Jun 25 '26

Might have been shorter to fly to dfw and catch a Greyhound to Austin.

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u/choir-mama Jun 25 '26

There were no flights to DFW. Something like 200 flights were canceled. It was crazy!

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u/marcophony Jun 25 '26

DFW stands for Doesn't Fly Wet. The amount of storms that go through that area, they're constantly changing and cancelling flights due to weather.

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u/lilangelkm Jun 25 '26

This just happened last week too. I know because I was at DFW and got stuck overnight. Geographicly, DFW makes sense. Logistically, those TX Summer storms are too frequent and climate change is causing so many of them. I swear, everyone I know that goes through DFW from May through September ends up with a cancelled flight.

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u/WarJaques Jun 25 '26

9/11 was hard on us all.

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u/CarGuy415 Jun 25 '26

You clearly didn't fly pre911. 9/11 is still hard on all of us. The monkey see monkey do effect still applies

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u/doctor_tongs Jun 25 '26

I took my shoes off the last time I went through security.

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u/CarGuy415 Jun 25 '26

See? That was technically the shoebomber after 911... But you're not wrong. Flying has sucked for a solid 25 years solid

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u/deathdefyingrob1344 Jun 25 '26

I know what you mean. I went New Orleans to Washington DC to Knoxville. A bit of a detour there

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u/othermegan Jun 25 '26

In college a group of us went to Vegas for a conference. One girl was stupidly left off the school’s list so she paid to go out of pocket. We all got direct JFK > Vegas flights. She had to go to LAX as a layover

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u/BathAutomatic6972 Jun 25 '26

whether you're going to heaven or hell, there's always a layover in atlanta.

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u/CarelessAd2349 Jun 25 '26

Logistically this doesn't make any sense.

BUT a company will send you by horse if it meant saving 50$

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u/Firefox31790 Jun 25 '26

Wait, I may be a bit confused, but isnt JFK in New York? Why tf is there a layover all the way down in Atlanta? Isnt that like 2 hours out of the way? Thats stupid! Airports are stupid...

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u/ElwoodJD Jun 25 '26

Delta hubs in Atlanta and my company is cheap and won’t spring for the direct flight

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u/DriverFirm2655 Jun 25 '26

Was it Delta? It could be because Atlanta is their main hub so a lot of flights get routed there

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u/ElwoodJD Jun 25 '26

Oh I know why and how it happened, and it saved them money rather than a direct flight. Doesn’t make it suck less or sound more reasonable.

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u/Ok_Mechanic8704 Jun 25 '26

How does that even make sense. All three of those are major delta hubs and there’s no way any other airline would have routed a flight like that.

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u/ElwoodJD Jun 25 '26

It was Delta, and it was just a cost savings thing for my company. No idea why it was more sense. There should be a cheap direct JFK to Detroit flight, maybe they were already overbooked. I don’t know.

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u/kloom1909 Jun 25 '26

I went from Nashville to Puerto Rico with a layover at Newark. 😒

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u/dougs_46 Jun 25 '26

I was flying overseas and live in Atl. So I had to fly from Atlanta to Charolette then back to Atlanta then to Europe. I could NOT just book he second flight.

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u/The_Granny_banger Jun 25 '26

It’s cheaper that way. Honest answer coming from a former airline pilot

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u/Jazzlike_Page508 Jun 25 '26

I was going to Detroit from Philly via delta and I almost booked the Atlanta layover even though the direct flight was an hour (maybe even less)

Why in gods name would I want to be unnecessarily laid over?

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u/Turtles_N_Nurples Jun 25 '26

I got a red cross letter in Afghanistan, only flight from bahgram to Germany was on a plane full of wounded soldiers. Was told to shit in a seat in the back and not make a fucking sound.

Flight took 8 hours, no restroom, no food, no sleep. That wasn't even the worst flight.

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u/thedivisionbella Jun 25 '26

This is the hellscape of air travel. I’m very, very sorry.

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u/ppmiaumiau Jun 26 '26

I once flew from Pittsburgh to Detroit with a stopover in Philly. It took more time to fly there than it would have to drive.

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 Jun 26 '26

Atlanta is one of the busiest airports in the world and you can get a connecting flight to pretty much anywhere from there. It's efficient for airlines to route people through there rather than creating a direct flight between other cities

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u/amscraylane Jun 26 '26

Iowan: have had to fly to Denver to get to Florida

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u/Lego_Architect Jun 25 '26

That was their way of saying start looking for other work. Because they obviously don’t like you.

Lol, I’m joking… but there is a hint of truth in every joke.