How to Deal with Weather Delays  My brother lives in Philly, and
Wednesday night he had the unfortunate task of trying to fly out
of that place in a soaking rain. Now, you know rain in general
doesn’t cause problems, but in that magical Northeast corridor,
it means congested airports like Philly basically grind to a
halt.  He had to work a full day and then take the last flight
out to Phoenix on Southwest (via Chicago/Midway). When he headed
to the airport, there were average arrival delays of 3h 43m, and
you know that, of course, means that departures weren’t going
out on time either. Needless to say, his flight was going to
misconnect in Chicago by a couple hours, leaving him stranded
overnight.  What could he do?  I thought I’d piece together how
I helped him with the thought that it might be helpful for
others as well. Remember, in situations like this, the airline
employees just want to get you out of there as quickly as
possible, because they have thousands of people to help. So, the
rules that may have