They were happy to rebook me on a flight from NY to SD, but I had a speaking event to get to, and they had no free seats available to get me there in time - so

They were happy to rebook me on a flight from NY to SD, but I had a speaking event to get to, and they had no free seats available to get me there in time - so rebooking wasn't very helpful. So I coughed up for a Delta flight early next morning. And nah, the noise regulation was never suggested to be a reason for bad compensation. As a foreigner I've never seen people flip their shit so much in public - like the plane staff (attendants, pilot etc) clearly had no part in the flight getting canceled, and were so apologetic - but people were yelling, swearing at them, it was pure fucking anarchy. At that point I had been up 27h, I just walked away, bought my morning flight. Found a hotel that was open (it was past midnight), took a cooked 2h subway ride into NY, slept for 4h, took 2h subway back, got my flight, presented. Honestly my biggest regret in the whole experience was just not choosing to sleep at the airport on the ground. Lol.