6 holiday travel horror stories that will make you want to stay home

Snow and icy weather conditions often cause flight delays and cancellations around the holidays.Icy train tracks have caused train derailments and delays.Last year, a computer error left 15,000 American Airlines flights in mid-December without pilots.Statistically speaking, traveling during the holidays may not be as bad as you think. But catastrophe has been known to strike.Holiday travelers have braved power outages, computer glitches, and winter storms in their efforts to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, and other holidays with loved ones.Here are six worst-case scenarios that travelers have faced around the holidays.Winter weather caused flight cancellations and dangerous road conditions in the Northeast in 2014.Heavy rain and snow in the Northeast caused flight cancellations on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in 2014. Over10% of flights at Philadelphia, Newark Liberty, and LaGuardia airports were canceled, according to CBS News. The weather also affected driving conditions, with multiple traffic accidents reported along Interstate 95.The world's busiest airport lost power eight days before Christmas in 2017.Due toa fire in a Georgia Power underground electrical facility,1,180 flights in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta were canceled on December 18, 2017, when the airport lost power, CNN reported.Planes were stuck on the tarmac for seven hours. Inside the dark airport, people used their phone flashlights.The Federal Aviation Administration declared a ground stop, bringing all Atlanta-bound flights to a halt. About 30,000 people were affected by the outage.A computer error left 15,000 American Airlines flights between December 17th and 31st without pilots.Pilots usually have to work during the holidays, but a 2017 computer glitch allowed them to opt out of flights from December 17th to the 31st. The error left 15,000 American Airlines flights without pilots during one of the busiest travel times of the year.To avoid mass cancellations and refunds, the airline agreed to pay pilots double their normal rate for taking one of the previously unmanned flights.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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