No rental cars were available to drive outside of Dallas, and booking on another airline would have cost about $1,800. So Russ Melchert and his wife rented a U-Haul truck, threw their carry-on luggage in the back, and were homeward bound.
Russ Melchert and his wife flew from Kansas City, Missouri, to Dallas on Friday to watch his alma mater's football team play the next day at the Cotton Bowl.
Melchert was set to return home at 12:35 p.m. Sunday from Dallas Love Field airport on a Southwest Airlines flight, but it was just one of thousands of flights canceled over the weekend due to air traffic control problems, limited staffing in Florida, and bad weather, Southwest said.Russ Melchert and his wife at the Texas-Oklahoma football game in Dallas on October 9.
— Kate Peifer October 10, 2021 Michele Wickman, a stranded passenger in Indianapolis, was sitting at the gate ready to board her flight and it got canceled, she told CNN affiliate WTHR. "I feel trapped because there's no rental cars, there's no flights. We can't even get a flight with another airline," Wickman said.CNN's Ramishah Maruf contributed to this report.
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