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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Parkersburg resident Morris Pike, 82, caught the first plane from Burlington, Vt., on Monday after learning that his wife had died the day before.
He expected to be home with his family Monday afternoon, he said, after catching a U.S. Airways Express connector flight to Charleston, from Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Instead, he spent more than seven hours waiting at Reagan National.
His flight was delayed to 4:10 p.m., then 6 p.m., then 7:15 p.m., then 9:10 p.m., then 10:05 p.m.. He finally arrived at Yeager around 11 p.m.
Cubby McMenamy, sales manager for FAS Windows in Tampa, Fla., was one of 33 other passengers on that flight. He and other FAS staff were headed to Parkersburg, he said, to sign a sales agreement for Simonton Windows' new hurricane-resistant windows.
"We're going to have to regroup," he said around 9:30 p.m.
The problem: Their Charleston shuttle was grounded at Yeager Airport with mechanical problems in the icy weather.
US Airways ticketing staff told Charleston passengers that the Charleston-Washington shuttle has been delayed or canceled almost every night for a month.
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