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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Roughly in order of occurance

Midland --> Houston: Accidentally exit in Austin.

Salt Lake City --> Paris: Flying stand-by. Run down jetway at last second carrying three bags, plane is held.

Paris --> Salt Lake City: My Most Embarassing Moment. Let me just state that it is possible to vomit through your nose.

San Francisco --> Salt Lake City: Pre 9/11, get bumped in Reno. After panic, get hustled onto small prop plane that makes a stop in Elko, Nevada. Suspect no paperwork took place. Grateful to Delta employees. Thank you, Delta!

Boston --> Dallas: Some people ram planes into buildings days before and the airport is closed for a week. No home for you!

Atlanta --> Dallas: Sleeping during the layover only works if you wake up in time to catch the connecting flight.

New York City --> Dallas: Nothing elaborate. Just missed the plane.

Dallas --> Manchester: Missing the first flight means five hours in the Newark airport, or else happily driving the rest of the way with someone who is treated by cars the way I am treated by airports. I enjoyed the second option. Sorry, Dave.

Dallas --> Chicago: Let on plane only by begging and running.

Dallas --> Salt Lake City: Luggage is lost on the way. Found in Kansas. Giggling ensues when bag is returned.

Dallas --> San Francisco: Right time, right luggage, right day. Wrong airport.

Dallas --> Salt Lake City: Despite best efforts, miss check-bags-in deadline by three minutes. Take later flight.

Idaho --> Salt Lake City: THIS ONE NOT MY FAULT. Tell baby brother to pick up outside Terminal 2. He happily waits inside Terminal 1 for 50 minutes.

Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :

Man I've flown standby and had less problems than that.... (Minus WenchCon where Josh and I sat at the airport all day... we did get to play Settlers of Katarn on the way back though)

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

[Group Hug]

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

*pat pat [Frown]

[ December 31, 2004, 11:13 AM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

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Paris --> Salt Lake City: My Most Embarassing Moment. Let me just state that it is possible to vomit through your nose.

It's also possible for both you and your son to do it at the same time *sigh*

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Idaho --> Salt Lake City: THIS ONE NOT MY FAULT. Tell baby brother to pick up outside Terminal 2. He happily waits inside Terminal 1 for 50 minutes.

First or second time I came up here to see Jen I had a similar thing happen. I got off the plane in a dusty, wrecked looking terminal. I wait. For more than two hours. Turns out Buffalo has a new terminal, and Jen forgot I was on an airline that went to the old terminal still. I'm leaving out last years Christmas Eve flying debacle as well. I feel your pain.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Ya know, I had similar problems getting out to NC for Christmas...Nothing major, but I got to the gate for my SLC - Cincinatti flight about a minute before the jetway moved off. I didn't see an attendant at the ticket counter, nor at the door to the jetway. I didn't see the plane listed for destination, so I went to ask someone. They confirmed it, I got back in time to see the jetway retract. Then my adventure to return home began. For the next 26 hours, I was not a happy man. But still, you've definately had it much worse than me.