Clearly I am on the Magical Unicorn Pony God shit list.
I was returning from scoping out the changes on the Father front (another post) connecting through Washington Dulles. First leg was fine. I had a couple of hours to kill. Went to the gate. Planes there. Good. But then suddenly they say you're leaving 45 minutes later and you're going to a different gate. Turns out they commandeered the plane for a different flight.
Go to the other gate. Plane is late coming in. We're going to be more like an hour and a quarter later. This is a flight that normally gets me in around 9 PM my time and I have a full schedule with four important meetings two of which I have already rescheduled.
We board the plane. I get all settled. Get my music and noise reducers on. Get my book out. Announcement. There is FAA required maintenance check...has to be done...no exceptions. All of us have to deplane. It's going to take around an hour and a half. I learned my lesson from the Chicago trip and get on the phone and book the first flight out tomorrow morning.
Go to the United Club and buy a nice glass of wine. Intercom says flight to Albuquerque is boarding early. Get to gate. Gulp down wine. Board the plane. They tell me I've been upgraded to First. Move from prior seat to front. Get all settled. Music and noise reducer are on. Book is being read. Announcement. You all have to deplane. Crew has timed out.
In the gate area they say they are going to put us on a flight scheduled for LA and have the plane make an unscheduled stop in Albuquerque to drop us off! I've never, ever heard of something like that. We traipse over to the other gate. Chaos. LA passengers are PISSED. The gate crew has no idea of how to actually get something like this in the system. Takes them about 45 minutes to figure it all out. We get on plane and take off around 4 hours late.
Told Wife to go to sleep, I'd take a cab home. Forgot that cabs stop coming to airport after last scheduled flight comes in. We aren't scheduled! Go out at 1 AM and there are no cabs. Fortunately a security guard calls one for me. Get home at 1:30 so I can get up for my 7:30 meeting.
6 comments:
You'd better offer some sacrifices and get right with the travel gods again!
How do you do it? My body and brain could not function after that.
Bernice, I usually only sleep about 6.5 hours so going down to 4 isn't that bad. I was able to get a nap in the afternoon which helped a lot.
oh my goodness, what a flight!! I take small comfort in the fact they did pull out a last crazy stop after all the crap they put you guys through.
Hope the meeting went well after all that! And that gpa is okay.
Tim Haist and his wife were also on that plane from hell!
I hope you had some good coffee the next morning! That is quite a trip!
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