Rental cars, trains or Ubers? Airline passengers search for alternatives during U.S. ground stop

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I mean, well, we'll find out.
We're supposed to check in our bags right now.
And we're just waiting to make sure
that the flight is departing from Toronto
to get here on time before we bother.
We were looking at options of rental cars.
Trains.
Everything.
Yeah, we couldn't even get a rental out of Manhattan anywhere.
So we were going to take an Uber to Brooklyn.
No, we're doing it.
Well, yeah, not to the Bronx.
And then to rent a car from the Bronx and to drive to Buffalo.
Oh, it's such a mess.
Yeah.
Thankfully, it looks like that's not
And again, Natasha,
even though what we heard from the FAA administrator and the U.S.
Transportation Secretary is that the system is now stable
and they expect everything to
get back to normal by end of Sunday, there is,
of course, a bottleneck that is created
when you have a ground stop like what we saw yesterday.
So we'll take some time for those delays
to kind of work through the system.
And I guess the hope is that this will all
be worked through ahead of the Thanksgiving
travel weekend, which is one of the busiest,
if not the busiest travel time in the U.S.,
just to give you a sense of numbers in terms
of how many fly out in that weekend.
2.7 million passengers each day over the holiday period.
So again, you can imagine there's probably
a lot of scramble to try to get ahead of this
before that holiday weekend.
