Many stranded Southwest passengers turned to rental car companies to get home.
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"We are going to Mexico City tomorrow, so we have a flight out of Juarez at 6 a.m. so the only way we were going to make this flight was rent a car or pay $1,200 to fly the other airlines," he said. "On Christmas Eve, I had her friend Raven, flew out, we did a secret photography shoot by Rockefeller Center and that’s where the magic went down and happened," said Cole Sanford from Lubbock.Southwest Airlines flight cancellations continue; USDOT to examine airline's role in holiday travel nightmareThe flight was canceled, and the two decided to rent a car and drive back to DFW, but it took a $300 Uber to Philly to finally get a rental.
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