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What a disaster! Thanks to American Airlines. Arrived at the airport at 10am for our 11.45am flight, which was cancelled due to ‘mechanical difficulties’?? Were rescheduled on the 1.15pm flight. It got to 1.20pm before they decided to tell us that the flight had been cancelled due to ‘mechanical difficulties’. Turns out that the second flight encountered an emergency landing and was grounded indefinitely.

We were rescheduled onto the 4.20pm flight , so we decided to kill a few hours by having lunch and a couple of beers in the airport bar. Laura saw some snow outside, although I believe it was just really light hail! We went to check into our flight, but it turns out that our airline assistant booked us onto the flight, without actually allocating us to a seat. So we were rescheduled again!! Ended up flying out of Toronto airport (a very overrated airport!!) on the 5.30pm flight.

Arrived in very downtown Chicago about 8.00pm and crashed for the night. What a crap day!

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