January 2010

The Worst Day Of My Life

January 4, 2010 Delay Stories

Dude. I have a terrible story. I flew from Istanbul, where I was visiting my dad, to San Diego. After being thoroughly searched 3 or 4 times, one of which the attendant may now nearly claim carnal knowledge of my person, I boarded the flight from hell. The flight was 3 hours delayed while we [...]

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Mom’s Seat Arrangements Delay Flight

January 4, 2010 Baby & Kid Stories

I travel a lot for business. While waiting for a recent flight from Chicago to Charlotte I noticed a younger couple with three small children – one boy about 3 years old and then twin babies in infant carriers. I commented to my co-worker that I hope they are not on our flight. The gate [...]

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A New Year’s Eve to Forget

January 3, 2010 Delay Stories

My family (wife and daughters ages 6 and 3) and I just returned to Minneapolis from our trip to Florida over winter break and just when I thought customer service for airlines could not be any worse, Southwest Airlines went and proved me wrong.  Everything I had ever heard about Southwest had been fairly positive, [...]

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Common Courtesy Is Out the Window

January 2, 2010 Airport Stories

In November 2008, I was flying home to Oklahoma from Biloxi, MS. I had just completed Air Force Technical School, and I was excited to get home to see my husband and collect our things before the drive to my first duty station. My flight was originally scheduled for 10:45am, so I arrived at about [...]

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Overzealous Homeland Security

January 1, 2010 Airport Stories

May I address the “overkill” of our zealous Homeland Security employees? My husband is a Korean vet with a partial knee replacement, yet he is always treated like the most dangerous potential terrorist in the world. The hotel printed the boarding passes for our return trip, but we didn’t notice the first letter of our [...]

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Truck Collides With Airplane

January 1, 2010 Airplane Stories

I fly quite often on various different airlines throughout the year, however I never seem to have a lack of issues with travel. Recently, I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Denver. The flight was initially running a little bit late, but at first was nothing to worry about. I had been bumped [...]

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