A woman has shared the heartwarming story of Delta Air Lines giving her an extra 24-hours with her mother before she passed away. In a now-viral TikTok, Hannah White explained she was rushing to get home to North Dakota to see her mom, who had gone into septic shock post-surgery.

Hannah immediately booked the first flight out of Dallas with a connection in Minneapolis, which wasn’t an issue until her flight was delayed by an hour due to mechanical issues. ‘I knew that if I didn’t make my flight, I wouldn’t see my mom until the following day and we weren’t sure she’d be alive,’ she explained in the video.

Hannah explained her situation to the flight attendant, desperately asking if there was something they could do to make sure she makes the connecting flight. An hour later the flight attendant came back and said the pilot had called the pilot on her second flight, who had agreed to hold the plane so she could make it.’They then bumped me up to first class, so I could get off the plane faster,’ she shared.

‘When I got to my first-class seat, the pilot made an announcement to the whole plane to let me off first so I could say goodbye to my mom. ‘When she got to her connecting flight, the plane was waiting for her – and Hannah said she was able to relax.

‘As I got off, all the flight attendants gave me encouraging words and wished me luck,’ she shared, adding the pilot also came out to say he was praying for her. The pilot told the outlet that the ‘stars don’t always align where I have the immediate ability to affect the outcome, but this was one of those cases where I felt it was possible.’

Hannah added she was, ‘was overwhelmed with joy because I had accepted that I wasn’t going to see my mom until the following day.’ ‘I don’t think any of them really know the gratitude that I have for them for giving me some extra time with my mom or just being nice to me on one of the worst days of my life,’ she added.