DALLAS, TX. - With planes moving again, area residents are happy to finally get on the move again. They hope to get back home.
"We finally got to the ticket and it's a golden ticket back to Kansas," said Tina Hill, a nurse from Salina who was in Texas for a healthcare conference this week.
"You just don't know if it will be three hours or three days. Mom is having a sleepover with my kids and my husband has the little one," said Hill.
Tina says her story began Friday afternoon when she got a text about her 4:00 p.m. flight to Wichita being canceled or delayed.
"We asked if we needed to book, so everybody else's flights got canceled. We decided to stick it out. Our ten flight got canceled. So now we have a flight scheduled before midnight. Maybe. Hopefully. We looked at renting a car and they won't do a lot of one way trips out of Dallas. The car rental places said they can't have all their cars leave and then they don't have any for tomorrow. And hotel prices were not a good option because some were asking up to one thousand for one night. We found others close to $200."
So Hill stayed at the airport in Dallas to wait it out and, like so many around the country, hope for the best.
"You just don't know if it will be three hours or three days," said Hill. "The airport thinned out after all the flights canceled."
"But I just want to get back to Kansas and go to bed."