There’s no scenario in which renting a car for a single day should cost $1,300. Yet, that was the price quoted to a few friends and me after our flight home was canceled earlier this month. The only flight we could find at such short notice was the day after our original car rental reservation ended, at a different airport in the same state, and the national rental car agency said there was nothing they could do about the price to extend the reservation.
This was just one aggravating inconvenience in a series of many in the days-long travel nightmare. After a restful trip to a lake in Michigan, it seemed the travel gods were punishing us for actually being able to relax: Flight after flight back to NYC was canceled by a national carrier due to “ground congestion.” I heard from other friends in other locations experiencing similar travails.
