My mom (75) had an early flight on Sunday from Austin to Kansas City, with a connection in Atlanta (stupid) booked a month ago on Delta. She was supposed to be there at a specific time to get picked up by a specific relative hence the narrowed choice of airline and connection point. Dropped her off at the airport at 330a cst. Flight was listed as on-time. She got on the flight and flew to Atlanta, arriving about 930a est. Next flight was supposed to leave at 1030a est but was delayed and then canceled. Put her in standby (with 47 other people) for a 1pm flight. That was canceled. Told her 3pm. 445p she texted me that she just boarded a plane and they upgraded her to 1st Class. It's a 2 hour flight so I texted her at 7p to see if she made it to KC. Nope. Turns out the pilot was over his max hours for the day and they couldn't find another pilot so they pulled everyone back off the plane. Told her next update wouldn't be until 1130p est. Then they said it would be a 1am flight, but then that was canceled. Then it became 8am est. At this point we were talking about coming back to Austin but there were no flights back either. Other airlines had limited flights back, but even a one-way ticket was listed at over $1000. I was seriously talking about making the 14-hour drive to Atlanta to bring her back home - especially if she was going to be stranded there a couple days. Told her to call me if the 8am flight didn't happen. 8am flight got canceled. She didn't call. Got a text at 945 cst that she was on a plane again and hoped they'd actually take off this time. Couple hours later she let me know she'd made it to KC. 25 hour layover. They didn't even offer a hotel. She slept in the airport. Dumbest thing was that her suitcase made it to KC 20 hours before she did. Somehow it got on a plane but she didn't. She had taken a very small suitcase as a carryon but they made her check it for the 1st flight, citing no room on the plane. It had her phone charger and hearing aids charger inside and she was trying to charge her phone using the very slow airport shit. She's supposed to fly back on Friday via American with a connection in DFW. I'm prepared to drive to either KC or DFW if I have to. Hopefully this shit is fixed by then.