NBC’s Shaquille Brewster reports from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, where bad weather and too much demand has created a “travel nightmare.” He reports airports from coast to coast are overwhelmed with a staggering 62,000 flight cancellations and delays, trapping countless passengers overnight.
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How about you stop depending on airplanes to move inside the country? Time to change and evolve, there’s no need for everyone to keep getting into the same problems each year.
I don’t travel during these holidays never have never will
Goody 4 u
I mean they knew about the weather like a week before so..
So true. Human beings can be so stupid, and some do not care. Human beings are our greatest threat. Lots of humans need a reality check.
Stop clutching your pearls.
Maybe they can watch a real news channel while they wait. HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP
TWITTER FILES
BORDER CRISIS
FENTANYL CRISIS
HOMELESS CRISIS.
GOOD THING THIESE FLIGHTS GOT CANCELLED ,NBC. YOUR LAME STORIES ARE A COPY CAT STORY FROM OTHER WOKE NEWS.
suffer! ha ha ha
I expect to see Biden’s DOE nuclear waste disposal expert on the scene immediately.
Would be more helpful than Sydney Powell was to Trump…KRAKEN….lol
They must learn to love the house or the place where they live, since many in the rest of the world do not have homes because of them.
Wow, what a stretch. 😅
I’m so lucky my entire family decided to live within the same state for generations.
Ehhh.
Thank God for me… none of my ex family members want to talk to me so that means I can save all of my money and not by any gifts for anybody!!!! 666
Last fight https://youtu.be/kXeOAoAoCRU
@I love Ana wooohun
Actually the zoo is more organized
Even the roads are bad for travel.
Would think these people would learn I mean this has happened basically every single year ever why don’t you learn
Some never learn to use punctuation either.
Air travel during the holidays is for rookies.
Stay yo azz home.
Flights canceled during a blizzard. Shocking.
Guess they all forgot what holiday travel is always like
1:11 Keep your homosexual agenda to yourself. You will be in the ovens while no one accepts your agenda. Are you going to risk your eternal soul for a paycheck?
I mean what are the airlines supposed to do? The blizzard not only stalled flights but prevented airport personnel from being able to commute. That includes airport controllers. That’s what we get in the IS for making our holiday season at the worst weather time of the year 🤷♀️
The airline could coordinate with their competitors to create more hubs and spokes, increase customer service support on the phone and at the airports, increase routes to nearby airports not affected by the storm, coordination with on the ground transit like Greyhound or Amtrak
Notify the customer that the flight is cancelled in a timely manner. Southwest is the bottom of the barrel discount airline. Why were other airlines able to fly and did not cancel 70 percent of flights; bad weather for everyone but Southwest just said “Screw it; cancel all of the flights except ones that our families are on”
😂 ok, so if a person misses their flight they can drive home. But how are they going to get their car from their home so they can drive home?
Rental
Have you NEVER driven to the airport and parked?!
@Meh oh, ok. So anyone can just a car and drive home. Had I known that, I would’ve never bothered to get a drivers license. I didn’t know it was that easy to just be anybody and still be able to rent a car. Free of course, because renting a car is that easy, correct? Thanks for offering the perfect the solution.
@Meh not when I was 8 years old visiting my grandmother in MN. They didn’t allow 8 year olds to drive from MN back to California in those days. Excuse me for being so behind the times ☺️
Now, when I parked a car at the airport, it didn’t automatically appear on the other side of the country so I could drive back. Inter dimensional portals were not offered at airport parking lots in those days. Now I know I can park at the airport in MI, fly to Florida, and drive back from Florida, because my car will appear there when I arrive.
You guys are so amazing with your insights on technology. And here I am thinking a smart phone was advanced technology. Silly 🙃 me.
Thanks guys. Travel safely
You have to use more vacation days/leave days and fly earlier then fly later after new years.
I was just in Arizona for the holidays and my mom and I drove and I know how this feels for lots of people trying to get home . My sis and her boyfriend came from Denver and I hope they don’t have this trouble after New Year’s Eve .
Flying during busy holidays often isn’t worth the hassles. November or even early December would be better time. Close to Christmas and yet less busy. For Christmas celebrations, relatives from afar can easily Zoom in. Not exactly the same, but better than be stuck in an airport. Basically, flying during off-times is less stressful and more manageable for both the traveler and airlines alike.
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If you have to work, it’s frequently not viable to travel outside of the holidays.
@Matt Sezer – “if you have to work” sounds like you live in a Slave Camp, or… You used up your Vacation Time Already!
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to Fail!” Is a Phrase it seems these folks never heard before! Not just the People who wanted to catch a flight, but also Southwest Airlines, and it’s Staffing Plans!
Flying at busy times is insane, IDIOTS. Avoid all air travel like the plague of death
Why do they keep taking buses to the VPs house? I’m sure they know her address. There should be some type of consequence for doing something so cruel. I used to think people were inherently good, but lately I have noticed how rare goodness is.
How many have you taken into your home?
I am puzzled that they were surprised by delays and cancellations. Didn’t they know the extreme weather conditions that will affect flights?
They knew and did nothing to notify people forcing them to be stranded in the airport. Oh, but wait .I’m sure they will “apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will give us another chance with the enclosed 10 percent your next flight”
@K Smith You’re such an entitled brat.
It’s YOUR responsibility to check weather forecasts.
It’s NOT the airlines’ responsibility to notify you of what’s going on with the weather.
Every December, there’s winter. Please take note of that. 🤣
I was in Denver 4 hours ago. Totally clear roads and skies. A little drizzle heading in tonight but nothing that Denver doesn’t see multiple times a MONTH let alone a year. This isn’t about weather. It may have started with weather but its now just a mismanagement of SWA. They should be held accountable both financially and with possible regulations or citations.
I’m guessing there’s going to be a huge surge in the flu, RSV, covid and strep throat cases.
How could anyone be surprised by how many people are at the airport. The day after Christmas and huge storms.
What about Ukrainians donate $$ now. Greedy Americans
Every year …. Why are people constantly surprised .. I’d never visit anyone during the holidays. Skype is sooooooo much easier.
Yea. It’s even better than being there.
The fact that they don’t even mention rail travel is a testament to the underdeveloped and underutilized rail network in USA… Many international rail networks do great even in heavy snow
Many don’t have a week to ride a train.
@Jimmy James a train can cross Most states in a day or two so I don’t know where you’re coming from in a week worth of train travel LOL unless you’re traveling across America I don’t see why you need to travel on the train for a week? In that case why are you even traveling during covid? Selfishness.
@the fry basket its obvious you never rode one. They sop in every town for 30 minutes to an hour to load and unload passengers. Why not look up a train schedule and see how long it takes to get coast to coast. It’s slower than a bus. You’re really not too bright are you?
Genuinely curious, but wouldn’t it be faster and much less of a headache to just rent a car one way and make the trip home? Especially if traveling with a family ?
Most car rental places don’t let many cars leave one way. It depletes their local inventories.
Haven’t you seen the news?
Icy dangerous highways and roads….DUH!!@
So they’d be stranded by closed roads, stuck in a massive snow drift, or in an icy deadly zero visibility accident pile up? No thanks. Massive arctic blast winter storm = just stay home.
Again…..
SI EL CENSOR SERA EJECUTADO.
For no reason? Lol 😂 you hired that guy
What ahout the fifty foot of snow
Soon as I watched weather report forXmas eve I would’ve cancelled plans…
There were plenty of warnings about this weather and southwest did nothing to notify passengers making them come to the airport to fine out they cancelled the flight. They insist on text, email, phone, having their app..and the only time they use them is to send them advertising to buy, buy, buy. It is never for the benefit of the consumer. The executives who let their algorithms be in charge now will make the slave like employees working in reservations and at the airports be yelled at for their stupidity and greed.
TS.
They should all have just stayed home like I always do.
Glad I flew in from Indiana to California on the 15th
Good thing the pandemic is over and everyone has their flu shots or a really strong immune system. Things seem back to normal. 🤣😷👍🏼
Yeah right. Good luck with that. A lot people collapsing after the shots.
@Tut Secret I was being sarcastic. 🤣 But it’s fine, we’re over populated and hundreds of people storming our border…. we need to thin the herd out to make room for them. 🤣🤷🏻♀️
Too many blacks
Moral of the story, don’t do Holiday Traveling…just don’t.
It’s shameful the Biden administration is responsible for this
Thank God I observe Gods Holy days which start around late March early April and end in October. We never have to worry about this
In recent years, there hasn’t passed a year in which many flights were affected. I hope people aren’t shocked and are okay.
Forward to Governor’s have to do is create jobs and housing isn’t what that they were elected for
Can’t blame the weather man, even Joe Biden got on TV told people not to travel, cold, snow, stay home. I don’t feel sorry for none of these people. Every news, weather stations, weather apps, and Joe Biden told people two weeks ahead of time, STAY HOME, DONT TRAVEL.
What could you possibly expect traveling in December? Mother Nature rules.
Madniss stay home untill it’s cleared covid next
I don’t like Christmas anymore. Crazy flights, no flights, violence, crazy ice, violence, looting. Yep looting, during the caos in the icy tragedy Buffalo NY some devils were looting. I never travel during Christmas to stay away of this insanity. This is year is so bad, that even in the rich area, only a few residences set Christmas decoration. Some years ago, the whole area each residence had Christmas decoration. I am sad and these people from the rich homes are sad too. Tired of the country, tired of people messing up this country, stop importing criminals here, we have enough criminals and hunger here. Stop giving free load to leeches. After the way the pilots were treated and what happened to many of them. Go figure why so many cancellations. Karma is a b. You see, the staff is calling sick during this caos, they wonder I won’t be in this mess.
This is so strange. Where are the luxurious buses and trains for long distance trip. Does not exist in USA? In 3rd world country the long distance bus is paradise with bed, bathroom.
Send all those inmigrants to joe house too
3:54 beautiful man teeth ❤❤
it’s a complete utter…
This falls in Biden’s hands ! He kills with his policies ! Sad day for america and the immigrants when a dementia president is handled by wicked unseen force set on destroying america for thier political power !
Abbott has no compassion or humanity. His actions that of a petulant little child. He has a “crippled” mind, as well as legs.
Flying during the holidays almost always equals chaos. If you’re unable to drive or fly prior to the holidays, its not worth it.🤷♀️
Why are you in the USA????
I would never ever fly out a day or two before Christmas. Heck no. I would go a week out at the least.
All of this Madness should Absolutely Deter Anyone from flying again around the holidays…. and if You even see a Winter storm predicted, then do Not even think about flying
1:00 omg!! 😳😳
Honestly, did people NOT know it would be this way during major weather events? Stupidity at its finest.
It’s a win for loners and introverts. Yaaaay
Airlines should not apologize for putting safety first.
Why do people travel every year this always happens lol
Can’t feel sorry for the sheep
. what are the airlines telling people about the cancellation of 67% of the flights. Sorry but you’re screwed.😅
The guy at 1:14 saying ‘southwest abruptly canceled our flight without any reason’
😂😂😂 sir, look around you. Your flight was canceled for the exact same reason that literally 10s of thousands of other flights were canceled.
It blows me away that anyone is even remotely surprised by their flight being canceled right now.
This is why I don’t fly. I got tired of the flight cancellations, the flight delays, and the loss of luggage. I’d rather rent a car and drive. That way, I can leave whenever I want and I don’t have to worry about losing my luggage.
?? Important segment about the power infrastructure just cuts off randomly
Southwest. What a dumpster fire!
Asians disappeared and the only Hispanic are those crossing the border.
Remember, Bags fly free on Southwest
This is why I will never, ever, EVER, travel for the holidays. So not worth it.
They should’ve just stayed home. They can go travel when weather cooperates some other time. Getting stressed due to anxiousness is not worth the trouble.
We need another mandatory lock down. I said what I said. Idgaf about your feelings. Watch the uptick in covid deaths. You’re not pro life if you’re fine with passing around respitory illnesses 🤷🏽♀️
You did it to yourself.
Next Christmas EVERYONE stay home and gather together for celebrations in Spring or Summer ???
They were warned but oh well can’t feel sorry for them😜
NBC speaking of chaos is there a news source you would recomend your viewers watch to stay updated on the chaos at the open border?
There’s no need to travel for Christmas and NY. Stay home, seeing your family ain’t that important. NO MATTER WHAT.
What did people learn in the last 3 years? Nothing!!!!! #humanityfail
All these people heard “Coming Storm” and thought, nope won’t happen to me 😂
Over 99% of the people at the airport are not wearing masks. No wonder these viruses never go away.
Merry Christmas Global warming !!!
My heart goes out to all those affected sending prayers to everyone to those stranded at the airport count your blessings it could be worse. Suppose you were on board a plane and it went down killing everyone say your prayers and tell God thank you and look at all the families who lost loved ones 🙏
This happens every year. Some people take it beyond personal, but at the same time, they know the risk of traveling by this method on, not a holiday, but an inclement weather day. It’s unfortunate that inclement weather happens on a holiday 75% of the time, but here is the flip side based on some of the complaints, but first, planes skidding of icy runways happens. They don’t happen that often and can be a rare event only because of delays and cancelations such as what these people are experiencing in this video. With that said, if it would have happened, people would have been filing lawsuits and on the news pouring their hearts out with comments that make them look big such as “They knew the dangers so why they put our lives at risk.” and further suggest, “If we knew ahead of time, we would have cancelled our flight, got a refund and found another mode of travel or just stayed home for Christmas. It’s better to be alive and miss gatherings.”. Would anyone agree this is how things go one way or another?
A lot of these passengers don’t care if the plane is ready, if the flight can take off and land safely, or if the flight crew has slept in the last 48 hours….until something bad happens….then, they want to sue everyone, from the pilots to the cafe workers. I’d rather sit on a Greyhound for 12 hrs, than a airport carpet.
@Corey and Nathaniel Chartier Not me. The last time I was on a Greyhound, I was beside a woman with 2 toddlers for nearly 3 hours. One of them smelled like an wet diaper that ain’t been changed for hours.
Seriously you need a reason have you seen all the snow that’s happening in those States ! Pilots are not going to fly through those weather conditions! And risk the life’s of 200 passengers on a plane. With these extreme weather conditions.
If you’re gonna spend 24 or 48 hours waiting in an airport because of delayed or cancelled flights, I strongly suggest having Amtrak as a backup, especially out of large hubs like Chicago and NYC, there’s lots of routes that one can take
Im not sure if this works for everyone but maybe take amtrak as a second option? Just speaking for me since i have family up and down the east coast major cities not sure about traveling west
I’m confused on why they shocked flights got canceled. 🤦♀️
Heyyyy let’s go flying in a storm … Then you die in a crash and your dead butttt you still complain. I mean why do people ruin the holidays over simple things? Grinches you stole my news away this is alllll I hear about! God blessed you with a brain… Use it!!!
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good luck
No sympathy. Non essential travel is just polluting the planet. I can give someone a call if I need to talk to them. Shame on the human race.
https://youtu.be/FCYbE4o5_Ss
Reminds me of that old stand-up comedian, ” get out on runway 13 and give it your best shot”
People are idiots they were forecasting the weather the entire time. They brought this upon themselves. I don’t fly on important holidays even on good weather. Ain’t worth the headache.
If you need these media idiots to tell you whether the roads are bad, or that the airports are clogged, then you should stay home. I just hope all this pressure from the media and passengers, with the dolt Biden getting involved, doesn’t coax the airlines into taking off into bad weather and killing a plane load of people.
Imagine getting your Christmas dinner from a vending machine at the airport in Buffalo……….
Airline industry RIP, and dont say **I always fly and hardly ever havea delay*** Either you are lying OR you rarely fly OR you are in for a big fat surprise future = expect delays 365 its the new norm. Anyone who flys goes at their OWN RISK, = Sleep overs days maybe weeks. RIP