So, Mat said he’d call once he arrived in Frankfurt, which should’ve been around 1am this morning, but I haven’t heard anything yet. Luckily, United Airlines has this great online web site that lets you track flights.

By the way, United Airlines is the worst airline I’ve ever had the displeasure of experiencing… and I haven’t even flown UA. Mat’s flight was supposed to be from Norfolk to D.C. on Sunday afternoon around 4pm, and he didn’t find out until arriving in Norfolk that the flight had been canceled, though the flight was canceled before he left Columbus Sunday morning. The airline found every excuse in the book to say that the cancellation wasn’t their fault, so they were not going to cover any hotel expenses and they wouldn’t put him on another airline. He tried to get another flight, but nothing was available. So, he missed his flight from D.C. to Frankfurt on Sunday night. Then, on Monday, his UA flight from Norfolk was delayed, which created a similar situation but in D.C. this time. Again, no hotel coverage or airline switch. Luckily, the UA flight on Tuesday went out at the time scheduled, and he arrived in Germany at 7:00am (1:00am EST).

I was able to look up his travel from Frankfurt to Mannheim, and it looks like he’ll have a very pretty drive! There’s a mountain range just to his left (east) that he’ll be traveling next to.