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Airports are busy places. Flying machines of all sizes defy gravity on their way in and out. Passengers come and go on errands of business and/or pleasure. Dozens, hundreds or even thousands of airport employees keep things moving in countless different ways. But the science of flight that keeps the aircraft that make airports necessary in the air is a delicately-balanced dance. Mechanical breakdowns can leave a plane grounded for hours or months waiting for repairs. Weather from a thin, misty fog bank, a few fluffy flakes of snow, to mighty storms miles across can shut down runways for dozens, hundreds or even thousands of miles in all directions. The shutdown could also be caused by a major crime or, scarier still, a terrorist attack. Alternately, simply leaving the destination airport can be prevented by miles of bureaucratic red tape. Suddenly our hero(es) is/are stuck in an airport. Now the real story begins. Now the real drama and/or action begins. This trope is not limited to airports. The kinds of chaos that can close an airport or ground flights can leave buses and trains parked as well. It can even happen to the occasional subway. Not surprisingly, a lot of these episodes like to set up a Road Trip Plot as a reason for the characters to be in such a place only for it to fly screaming off the proverbial rails. If the character(s) is/are readily able to leave the airport to wait for the flight to resume, or simply bail on the entire trip and return home, it's not this trope. If they are only inconvenienced by a delay, it's not this trope. However, if the sudden onset of extreme weather is what's inconveniencing them, it may be a Big Storm Episode. Or at least overlap with that trope. No Real Life Examples, Please!. This plot has happened to FAR too many real travelers to entertain the idea of listing even a fraction of the Real Life examples. |
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The King of the Hill episode "Happy Hank's Giving" has this happening to the Hills, the Gribbles, the Souphaniousinphones along with Bill and Boomhauer over Thanksgiving (which involves the destruction of Hank's propane-smoked turkey when a bomb-sniffing dog barks at his luggage). After everyone misses their flights, the families eventually settle with eating dinner at the airport with whatever they can scrape together. | |
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The subplot of Adventures in Babysitting involves Brenda, the best friend of Elisabeth Shue's character Chris, being stuck at the Greyhound bus station in Chicago after trying to run away because she didn't bring enough money (or even plan) for a return trip. While the main characters keep running into one obstacle after another, the action keeps cutting back to her travails with homeless people and other annoyances in the bus station. | |
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In the Relativity story "Let It Snow", Michael and Yule are stuck at an airport in France due to a snowstorm - The delay threatens to prevent them from spending Christmas with Sara. They pass the time by reminiscing about previous Christmases. | |
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Die Hard 2: John McClane is at Dulles Int'l Airport on a very snowy Christmas Eve, waiting for his wife's (civilian) flight to arrive when a Central American drug lord hijacks the (military) plane carrying him to his trial. | |
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House, M.D.: In "Failure to Communicate", a snowstorm gets House and Stacy (ex-girlfriend, the hospital's chief lawyer) stranded in an airport unable to fly back from a mandatory out-of-town meeting with medical insurance officials. Highlights include House writing ideas on walls instead of the usual whiteboard, instadiagnosing other people around, talking about personal things with Stacy, causing authority problems in his team by being absent and hard-to-reach. He's still the one who solves the Medical Mystery of the Week. | |
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The Langoliers: The pilot and a fraction of the original passengers are the only people to be found at Bangor International, but they're still stuck due to a lack of fuel. | |
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In the Outnumbered episode "The Airport", the Brockman family are coming home from a holiday but end up stranded at a Spanish airport with the kids and Granddad causing escalating quantities of chaos. | |
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In the Motion Practice series, "The Eight-Hour Postponement" sees bad weather strand a group of travelers at an airport for eight hours, leaving Bruce Banner as the responsible adult for a small child, two teenagers, and Tony Stark. | |
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The Terminal is basically this trope: The Movie. The main character is stuck in an airport after his home country breaks out in civil war. His passport is revoked and he isn't allowed to leave the airport or fly home. This is the probably the most tragic example, as it happened in real life and the man spent decades living in an airport. He wasn't okay. | |
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A sidequest in Mass Effect 2 involves two asari unable to leave the Citadel due to being flagged by C-Sec as geth affiliates. | |
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New Girl, "LAXMas": The roommates are all flying out of LAX for the Christmas holidays, but a Midwest storm causes a lot of flights to be moved around or cancelled. Jess is mostly unaffected, Schmidt and Cece get moved to a later flight, and Nick and Winston are far down the waitlist for a Chicago flight until Jess pulls some strings. | |
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The introductory adventure to Dark•Matter (1999) revolved around a group of characters who get stuck at a highway rest stop during a huge snowstorm, and given the genre of the game, there's a monster lurking around in the snow and hints that the snowstorm itself might not be natural. | |
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NCIS: Tony is at Dulles Int'l Airport waiting for his father's flight to arrive. Bishop and her husband (We finally get to see him!) are also there to catch a southbound flight. Three things manage to happen all a once: Gibbs calls Tony with news about some important intel regarding terrorist activity and airports in the Eastern US. Bishop sees somebody she thinks she recognizes, but can't remember where from. The airport admins decide that the snow is bad enough to begin closing the runways. |
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"The Great Airplane Strike" by Paul Revere and the Raiders has the narrator going to desperate measures to find another flight when his original flight is grounded by an airline workers' strike. | |
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In the Alma's Way episode "Granny On The Go", the flight that Alma's grandma planned to go on to visit the Bronx is cancelled. Alma decides to video chat with her to show her the things she does there. | |
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The V.I.P.s is about a group of, well, V.I.P.s who are stuck waiting out a heavy fog at London's Heathrow Airport. | |
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An important part of the Fiasco scenario "Last Christmas In O'Hare" is, well, that the characters are stuck at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, on Christmas, because of a snow storm... while one or more of them are scheming a plot... and at least one of them is probably on his Last Dance... or The End of the World as We Know It is pretty much hours away. As is expected of the game, Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The Amazing Race had a bit of this with NFL Teammates Chester and Ebrahim. They got stuck in an airport in Argentina and the episode would occasionally switch to them trying to deal with their travel delays. By the time they finally got to their destination in Portugal, night had fallen and Phil was already there at the airport to eliminate them. | |
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The Golden Girls had a Flashback in one episode where Rose is stuck in the train station on Christmas and talks to another stuck lady. They talk about holiday memories and in the the end, it's revealed that the other woman's daughter was dead; she was going to visit her at the cemetery. | |
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ER. Kerry's subplot of the episode "April Showers" had her venturing to Las Vegas for a conference to cover up her humilation at not being invited to Mark and Elizabeth's wedding. With the weather shutting everything down, she ended up stranded there. | |
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The entire film Unaccompanied Minors is about this trope: an airport is Snowed-In, and while most of the people were moved to a nearby hotel, the main characters - all children - sneak away and end up having to stay at the airport. | |
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Little Bill: The main problem of the Christmas Episode, where Alice the Great is stuck at the Cincinnati airport and is unable to come home for Christmas due to the big snowstorm there. Luckily, Little Bill saves the day by asking Santa Claus to pick her up and bring her home. | |
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The Facts of Life: Blair and Jo get stuck in a podunk town bus station. Blair is pleasantly surprised to discover that the newspaper stand sells French and Italian Vogue among others. | |
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Station Eleven: Clark boards a plane that is redirected to Severn City Airport due to the Georgia Flu pandemic. The passengers are then stranded there for the next two decades. Seeing as 99% of the population has died, and the world has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it's not like they have anywhere else to go. | |
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