Flight madness....

REDLYNER

REDLYNER

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Trying to get home from Chicago, here is the current status:

Booked on a 6:00pm home
Get to airport at noon
Get new ticket for 4:20pm, also put on standby for 2:20pm flight
Walk through security, phone rings: 4:20pm flight gets canceled.
In long line for 2:20 flight, it gets delayed until 3:00pm
Call airline while in line for now 3:00pm flight and get rebooked for 6:00pm.
Still in line, phone rings, 6:00pm flight delayed to 7:00pm
Get to front of line: I find out I'm first in line for standby on the 3:00pm, BUT the lady asks if I want to be in standby for the 12:00pm flight that had been delayed to 2:00pm. I would be 19th in line and lose my spot for the 3:00pm.
I didn't really want the gamble, then the lady says let me see what I can do....
She bumps me up to 5th on the list and I get on the flight... Which is already boarding.
I get my seat (emergency exit!) and we push back, line up on the runway and are about to take off. Tower calls in, all flights grounded. Still sitting here... No clue when I'll take off. Skipped lunch, starving... Just trying to get back to Charlotte!

Anyone had something like that happen?
 
Nope i drive!!!
 
Blaze said:
I once got on an airplane in Philly heading to Detroit at 9am, halfway down the runway the engine lost oil pressure and we had to go back to the terminal. Got in to Detroit at 6pm. :lol:
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I'd much rather lose oil pressure on the ground than in the air. I'd take that deal alld ay long.
 
I fly nearly twice a week and usually never have this kind of chaos with a flight. However, I'm now doing about 75% of my flights through Chicago and this is becoming the norm. My flight out from Charlotte to Chi was delayed 3 hours because of bad weather in the mid west.

Crazy part it was 39 degrees in Chicago, as I'm typing this it's 82 in Charlotte. Finally in the air, can't wait to land and drive the race car home :D.
 
Why I don't want a job that requires travel.
 
Flying Delta or US? Trust me, as a pilot, I rather be safe on the ground than being in what we call "the soup" or hazardous weather. Severe turbulance makes most never fly again. Severe is categorized by being unable to maintain positive control of the aircraft and very hard to keep the sky above you and ground below. VERY scarry.
 
Trust me, I'll sit on the ground all day. I have no problem with the better safe than sorry approach. I just can't remember the last time I had so many changes in one day. Flying US- not the most creature comforts, but always great service.
 
Only time I ever had flight trouble was flying from Sofia, Bulgaria to Warsaw, Poland. About half way through something went wrong with the plane and we turned around and landed back in Sofia. That was the first leg of 3, so the other two flights got cancelled. Ended up having a free hotel room in Sofia (a single room for each of us, which was..15 people or so), and our flight from Frankfurt to Newark was changed from LOT (awful shitty Polish Airline) to Lufthansa (SCORE!!).

Still, none of this made up for the 8 HOUR layover in Newark at...10 pm. Spent the night sleeping on a luggage cart.
 
I skirted up the coast from Charlotte to Portland, ME - by way of Philly. No delays - however one of my guys is stuck in Cincinnati with the same problems you had. Cancelled flight, and big delay on the reschedule. He'll get here at 2 am if at all. Looks like I'll have trouble getting back to Charlotte tomorrow :(
 
Got stuck in Jackson, Miss once trying to get back to Charlotte around 2 pm. Got on the plane, pilot said that the mechanics were going to check the tires and see if they had enough life in the tire for one more landing. I yelled out What the F**k?!?!?. We get off and wait 30 minutes. Tire is bad and needs changing. SO we wait another 30 minutes. Oh the Jackson airport doesn't have the proper tool to change the tire, the nearest tool is in Missouri!!!! and won't be there til 8 pm!!! I get a differnt flight and get to Charlotte at 9 pm. I would have saved about an hour if I would have drove.
 
Friend was trying to fly from cht to ohaire yesterday. Flight was supposed to leave at 6:10 AM they landed yesterday at 9:45 pm. I think it was 13 bumps, two stand bys and a change of airlines to get it done
 
I was once at the Santa Barbara airport leaving on one the 2 early morning 7am flights.
This is one of those airports with 1 terminal, 2 gates. Total. Luggage handled by 2 guys and a cart... lol
anyway it was Feb, unseasonably cool.
our flight was delayed b/c there was some ice on the wings of both planes.
We were like, uh, ok, de-ice it? What's the hold up?
Well it turns out in Santa Barbara CA ice is so rare they don't actually have the equipment to de-ice more than 1 plane at a time. o_O

They literally flipped a coin to see which would go first, which would be delayed :eek:

So of course we were late to connection - just barely - as we were offloading they were loading... even though we had no less than 15 people connecting to the same flight, they wouldn't hold long enough to board (it wast the same damn terminal even).
Got stuck in Phoenix for 5 hours. Fuckers.
That's like just long enough to be a PITA but not really enough to actually go out and see town, esp since you can't rent luggage lockers anymore.
 
My favorite though is the annual Society for Neuroscience convention.
It's HUGE - some 40,000 attendees from all overt he world.
Only a handful of cities in the US can host it... have to rent out some 20+hotels etc. San Diego is one... not exactly a huge airport.

People show up at different times, but every year the last day is a flight fiasco. You can guarantee every flight to anywhere will be overbooked. For 3 years straight as a grad student, I'd specifically book a flight I knew would be overbooked just so I could offer to take the bump to another flight - which always included an extra day b/c they were all booked - just to get the free voucher(s) and free overnight stay.

...now my time is worth more...
 
kaiser715 said:
My God, I just got a horrible image in my head. I watched the Big Bang Theory tv show for the first time ever the other night. Are you more like Leonard or Sheldon?
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Leonard.
My wife thinks that show is hilarious b/c it reminds her of the people I work with o_O

And... imagine the gas lamp district in San Diego when the talks end at 5 pm and the convention center opens up like flood gates.
Nerds in every pub and restaurant for a mile.
 
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