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Wishing you safe travels home,never fun to be stresssed at the end of a vacation.... thanx for the reports and photos!!

So far I think we made the right decision. Just checking to see that plane arrives here this evening!

We just waved bye to our original flight, which despite what it says on AA's site, lifted off at 6:15, almost three hours late. We'll go have a nice dinner somewhere tonight, early to bed, VERY early to rise, and hopefully will be home in good shape tomorrow..

Safe travels Carol and Eric and thanks so much for all of your wonderful posts of this trip!

Good luck this morning. Safe trip. Enjoyed your stay almost as much as you did. Felt like we were there with you.

We're sitting at the gate. Should be ok going out, I hope.

Clear all morning. Now getting overcast. They should be here soon.
Cheers
irina

Hopefully you are there now <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Clapping.gif" alt="" /> after running into problems at the end of a wonderful trip. I cannot thank you enough for the fantastic daily trip reports, almost made me feel like I was there with you. My stomach is still rumbling from those pics taken at some of my favorite restaurants. Welcome home! Thanks again! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/toast.gif" alt="" />

Tuesday am on TV saw lots of damage in Orlando area. Our son in Sarasota had minor flooding.

We're home, no problems. No damage here at the house, not sure how much rain here, but a fair amount.

Glad you made it ok.

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thanks to both of you!

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good to hear that you're home safely

We definitely made the right decision. It was a much more relaxing time, coming home and getting home during the daylight, and not having to drive 3 1/2 hours in driving rain at night, to get home around 2:30 AM. We never would have considered it before, but we may well book that 8 AM AA flight coming home in future. I am NOT a morning person in the slightest and it hurt getting up at 5:15 AM yesterday, but I really think we'll consider it in future. If we lived 30 minutes from the airport at home, it would be a different situation.

I often take that 8 AM AA flight, but for different reasons. Depending upon the schedule, if I take that flight, I can get home (to the West Coast) in one day. I, too, hate leaving that early; but, for me, it eliminates the need for an overnight on the way home.

Glad you made it safely.

That makes sense. The flight yesterday was only about half full. Not sure how full it normally is.

Glad that you Eric made it back to the "real" world safely. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" />

If this is the real world, I wish I was still in fantasy land!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

This place is so not the real world!
irina

Wait, are we talking about Miami?? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />

Most of Florida in general. But yes. Miami in particular!

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Back when we were driving 4 1/2 hours to Charlotte to get a nonstop flight, we always spent the night there before driving home the next morning. No way I'd want to drive that distance late at night!

We have done it several times before and it stunk, but we still got home around 11 or 11:30. This time, we weren't going to get home until after 2 am, and just didn't want to deal with 3 1/2 hours of driving rain.

I will tell you though that we are now seriously considering the flight leaving at 8 am in future, as it didn't hurt nearly as badly as I thought it would!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />

Does the 8AM AA overnight in SXM?

Yes

Yes, it arrives around 9:30 PM or so, this time of year. On Monday, we waited until the flight left Miami at something like 6:30 PM, headed toward SXM, to turn in our SXM phone, figuring so long as that flight left Miami, we were good to go the next morning from SXM..

Good to know for future reference. Delays and cancellations tend to increase as the day goes on, I would rather do an early bird sometimes. Thanks

Agreed. Makes sense!

I was stuck there after Betsy 20 years ago. I stupidly left and went to SJU to get home. Shoulda stayed in SXM....

Too many crazies on roads down here to make that drive at night.
Bad enough in the day time!
i

We were on the delayed (AA) MIA-SXM flight on June 6th. This was the plane you were originally scheduled to take to MIA on that same day. I received a text from AA that morning at 4:03 AM saying our flight from Miami was delayed from 11:30 to 2:15. We did leave around 2:15 and landed SXM around 5:15. AA knew at 4:03 that the flight was going to be delayed. Still not sure why.

Our biggest concern that morning was the approaching storm and if we would get out of Orlando on schedule. As it turned out we left MCO on schedule but ended up delayed out of MIA. While you were stressed getting out of SXM we were stressed getting there. All because of the same plane.

Yes, that never did make sense, why that plane was delayed. All the other flights out of Miami that day seemed to be leaving on time. And the inbound flight that was the physical plane that was to go from Miami on down, that flight was on time. I think it was a crew issue. According to the people in SXM, that flight from Miami is often delayed. I do not know why that would be.