Got on a flight this morning out of a local airport, Bellingham, that’s would connect in SEATAC, only an hour and a half drive, 30min flight, then continue to Burbank. Well we’ve been sitting on the flight since 5:30 am, it’s now 10:30. We’ve been told we can get off the plane, but will not be allowed to get back on. I called the Alaska Air  to try and get on a different flight out of SEATAC, and my wife and I would just drive down.  I was told by the rep from Alaska they’d charge us an additional $50 fee per ticket for voluntarily changing our flight, I contested and they said that’s just the policy. So now my options are to sit on this flight where all we’ve gotten to eat is 2 crackers and hope we take off some time or get off and try to argue the $100 away for the next flight. 