Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Had a friend on a flight yesterday that was to leave LGA at 430. A A320. Had a mtc issue. Looked it up, and yep, it was a must fix item. Part was coming from BOS. Lots o weather, and the result was the pilots timed out at 0130Z. They told the pax that they had a new crew etc. Waited, waited, waited. Boarded up at 2345. At 0000, they realized the flight was never re-crewed w/pilots. CNXed. No hotel rooms left. TSA shuts down the airport, so it was baggage claim or find a hotel on their own. 400 bucks later they found a hotel.

Flight was full, and there was no where for any of them to find lodging near LGA.

Not a good day to be in LGA.