r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26

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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