"We had a brief stopover in Frankfurt before connecting to a transatlantic flight back to the States a couple of hours later. There is no angst quite like "I hope we don't miss our connection" angst. We got to the Berlin airport and it said that our first leg was delayed by 10 minutes. Not a problem. I'm a veteran flyer and a regular Zoloft patient; a 10-minute delay ain't s-t to me."
"The 10-minute delay became 20. Twenty minutes became an hour. Virtually no one in our gate area had Frankfurt as their final destination. Frankfurt is the busiest airport in Germany and a de facto hub for nearly all Western Europe air travel. I went to the gate agent in Berlin and asked for more information. Turned out that our flight hadn't even LEFT its original airport yet to come get us. Our connection window closed slowly at first, and then all at once."
Thousands of Americans were left stranded in the Caribbean over New Year's due to the Trump regime's invasion of Venezuela. Snowstorms across Europe killed at least six people and caused widespread flight delays and cancellations that persisted. A family flying from Berlin experienced cascading delays: a ten-minute delay stretched to an hour while the inbound aircraft had not yet departed, closing their connection window. Frankfurt's status as a major hub amplified the impact. Airlines often did not rebook passengers until a connection was officially missed, leaving travelers to endure long waits and limited options as information lagged.
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