IMMEDIATELY, take out your cell phone and call the airline. DO NOT PASS GO, just start dialing. The airline would prefer that you rebook by phone and you will beat the pleading (always in vain) throngs at the gate when you are finally let off the plane.
NEXT STEP, call and find a hotel. If your flight is being cancelled for weather then most likely many other flights have also been cancelled. The huddled masses sleeping on airport floors that we see on TV are there, mostly, because savvy travelers beat them to a hotel room and all the hotels within 20 miles filled up. Make your own luck. Do not wait for the airline to help you. In the case of weather delays they will often not pay for the room either. Better to have a room in hand, even if you then decide to hang out and debate reimbursement policy with your airline.
Once you have taken care of these items, you now have time to harass your flight crew and burn airline ceo’s (in effigy)
I don’t believe in “faultless” flight delays and cancellations, I am paying the airlines and airports to deliver a service in the face of circumstances. Maintaining aircraft, needing adequate number of available seats and summer thunderstorms are not surprises out of the blue. If they fail to deliver then they should compensate me. Let me know if anyone gets a class action lawsuit going.
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