Everyone has had a bad travel experience due to unfavorable weather. In yours, were you able to turn the apparent problems into an advantage? For example, you might have had extra work to do and a laptop computer with you, and been able to complete an assignment better or faster than would otherwise have occurred. Or did you simply get frustrated? Or oversample the free drinks the airline provided you?

Seeing no hope there, you quickly call your travel agent to find out what your alternatives are. Bad news! The fog is getting worse and is expected to last through Wednesday. What to do?

No problem, you think. You can drive to another airport and fly from there. More bad news! All airports but one within three hundred miles are also fogged in (they are all located on the water in similar weather conditions). Every flight for days has now been booked from that one open airport. What do you do?

Well, you can handle that. You’ll just drive to an airport 500 miles away and get a plane there. It’ll take a good part of the night, but that is all right. Then you encounter still more bad news: There are no flights from that airport that will get you to the meeting before 6 P.M. on Wednesday. What next?

You decide to charter a plane to get to the meeting. You grab the Yellow Pages and start calling every charter company listed. Too late!