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Originally Posted by Leatherboy2006
Exceptions: Hotel accommodations will not be furnished:
To a customer whose trip is interrupted at a city which is his/her origin point, stopover point, or his/her permanent domicile.
When the destination designated on the customer's ticket, and the flight on which the customer is being transported, is diverted to another city or airport in the same metropolitan area due to weather.
US Airways will provide passengers a list of hotels/motels, which offer a distressed rate when flight(s) are canceled due to circumstances beyond our control.
Actually they got a loop hole in this policy, if Philly was the place you started you flight at that day and not your connection point then the policy you posted from their web site states, that hotel's will not be provided for at your point of origin. which would be Philly in this case. Also be careful of wording direct is a flight that could make several stops, non-stop would have gone from Philly to Denver non stop. Southworse got me that way once with a direct flight San Diego to Chicago stopping in 5 cities between with the same flight number and plane
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If it was the return portion of a round-trip itinerary then it wouldn't be considered point of origin when it comes to providing hotel accomodations. Point of origin would be the first departure airport on your itinerary. It doesn't necessarily have to be your domicile, but often one's domicile is in or close to the point of origin.
It's my guess that the rolling delay was due to weather and that was the "loophole" that got US out of providing hotel accomodations. I was in NY at that time (Aug 8 was my parent's anniversary) and there were some very severe thunderstorms in the northeast. It's not uncommon in the summer for Washington DC, Philly and the New York area airports to become a total cluster@#$! with the thunderstorms. It's not safe to fly in them and when lightning strikes near any airport it shuts down the ramp so the baggage handlers and aircraft maintenece people can take cover.
Those rolling delays just compound as inbound traffic gets backed up and often crew timeout is the result. The northeast is bad in the winter AND the summer.