In the spirit of keeping myself occupied, I thought I would provide another update. My mini did in fact make the flight from TW to Anchorage and is now on its way to Kentucky. Unfortunately, the plane took off 45 minutes late and isn't expected to arrive until 12:53am, which means there is almost no way it will make it on to the 1:00am flight to Detroit. it looks like that is the only flight daily, so it probably will get stuck in Louisville for at least 24 hours.
So an interesting twist in the plot:
1:00am - My mini arrived in Louisville at as planned and didn't make the flight to Detroit (no surprise there).
8:30am this morning, I got an update that my delivery was rescheduled for tomorrow (Dec. 18th) from today. This made sense since there is only one UPS flight scheduled between Louisville and Detroit each day.
10:51am - Import Scan (in Louisville). Perfect, now I am ready for tonight's flight to Detroit.
2:04pm - Departed Facility. Hmmm.... that wasn't expected.
5:35pm - Arrived in West Carrollton, OH. Looks like I was wrong all along - it isn't going to be flown up. They are driving it up from Kentucky. Not sure that it makes a difference, but my shipment was global express.
Currently still on track for tomorrow - assuming that they don't let it sit in OH for a couple of days. Only 4 hours away at this point.