was the last day of reserve and i was working a 3 day trip. the last day was a sunday...i was supposed to fly from kewr-rdu then rdu-lga and then deadhead from lga-bos...from there on my own i was gonna jumpseat to philly to spend some time with the lady.
we were supposed to leave rdu for lga at 1230 and i was supposed to get into boston from my deadhead at like 330.
well the worst storms of the summer fired up and shut down ny. every flight out of rdu seemed to cancell except mine. what was supposed to be a 1230 departure turned into a 730 pm departure...pickin our way thru the weather into lga. got into lga and everything there was cancelled including my deadhead to boston. taxiing in i went on a limb and called usairways ramp to see if they had any flights going to philly from lga. the lady said theres only one left everythign else got canned. she said it left in 45 minutes and she even listed me over the frequency. i got off the plane sprinted over to the usair terminal from the american terminal. got thru security and to the gate and they had just pushed off the gate. apparently they got an earlier wheels up time and went with it. so now i had the option of getting a hotel in ny into my day off and try to get home or well do something else.
luckily there was a usairways to boston for some reason leaving at like 11 pm and i took that one. eventually got to the lady a few days later.