Have international flights booked and paid for, departure 2-11..,..thank you for this link!

It's really helpful to be able to track the incoming flight for the one you are going to take. Gives you an idea if you might be up against a delay long before your airline will tell you.

Yeeha.

What airport, if you don't mind me asking?

If you end up stuck overnight at the airport?

Sometimes not even then lol.

I believe they only pay if the delay is their fault.

Of course, the airline CEOs probably all vited for Trump. So it is their fault.

scares the shit out of me.

remain hopeful that with the airlines closing certain airports this shutdown will be over. Please.

The planes all have to line up to get de-iced just before take-off. This happened to us flying out of O'Hare last week (it's 3 degrees here right now, with -13 windchill), but despite the brief (10-15 minute delay, plus some more on the runway), our flight arrived not just on time but a tad early. Our outbound flight from SFO also had a brief delay, but with the amazing winds, we literally "flew" back.

I have to say, I was anticipating long delays at TSA and with traffic control (and stupidly came an hour-and-a-half earlier than normal to each airport just in case), but everything was totally copasetic. I thanked the agents for being there, and then had to wait around the airport for way too long.

These workers take their jobs seriously, and I feel enormously for them and their families. But I thank them profusely for helping the rest of us out. They're (reluctant) heroes.