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I had an 8AM flight across the country. Got up around 5AM, drove to the airport. On the way it was delayed by 2 hours, meaning that I would miss my connecting bus. Okay fine, had to rebook that for an extra $75, what can you do my schedule permitted that sort of delay, although the cost was undesirable. I sat and had some nice sit-down breakfast. Then I got the notification that it was delayed by three hours. I once again had to cancel and rebook on the last available bus, and was now going to get in at around 8PM instead of 3PM, with a four-hour bus ride to immediately follow. There were issues with the plane that needed to be figured out, which delayed take-off by almost two extra hours. After the 3.5 hour flight, the baggage was delayed by hour after getting off the plane. I missed my bus, had to book a hotel at two in the morning, accidentally booked the wrong bus for the next morning and had to book a fourth, got four hours of sleep, then got on a bus to my final destination.

So what was supposed to be about 9 hours of travel ended up taking around 28 😐 (and around $600 extra but thankfully the airline paid for that)