(CNN) — What do you do when your evening flight is canceled, you really need to be somewhere in the morning and there are no other available flights?
In the case of 13 total strangers in Orlando, Florida late Sunday, you hire a minivan, form an impromptu community and go on a “crazy” road trip — taking hundreds of thousands of TikTok viewers along for the ride.
No one’s quite sure exactly how it happened.
Michelle says it was her vision, but everyone else made it a reality. Carlos thinks it was Amy’s idea, but he put down the credit card. Carlos’ partner Laura says she’d never normally do anything like this. Laura’s daughter Mikayla was in disbelief.
It was Sunday night at Orlando International Airport in Florida. An evening Frontier Airlines flight to Knoxville, Tennessee had just been canceled. Stranded passengers were searching on their cell phones for other flights and lined up to speak to harried airport staff.
The travelers were from all over the US and beyond. They had one thing in common: their flight got canceled, and they wanted to travel that evening.
When the idea first started brewing to hire a van and drive overnight to Knoxville, Carlos and Laura said no. It sounded exhausting.
But then the couple saw their daughter Mikayla’s face, crushed at the idea of missing the tour of her dream college.
“She had tears in her eyes,” says Laura.
They approached another passenger, Amy, who’d been talking about the idea of hiring the van.
“I said, ‘I’m down,'” recalls Carlos. “She was like, ‘If you’re down, I’m in.’ Then some other lady came in and said, ‘If you guys are in, I’m in.’ And then it just manifested into 10-15 people.”
They didn’t have any hesitations after that, says Carlos.
“We got a really good vibe, because these are regular normal wholesome people trying to get home and having things that they need to take care of.”
The gang of stranded passengers went downstairs to the car rental area. Carlos spotted Hertz had…
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