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Delay Stories

The Ballad Of Flight 66

January 17, 2010 Delay Stories

This goes back to when I was in college, back when US airlines were flying 747s domestically, Nixon was President, and the planes that are now flying for NW were only 10 years old. As a kid, I never knew what flying with a reservation was. I was an airline brat. It allowed me to [...]

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Flying the Unfriendly Skies

January 11, 2010 Delay Stories

United: Dulles to London Heathrow
Good weather for a 6pm departure, sunny Summer evening. The flight is full. The doors are closed, the preflight brief is given, and the plane pushes back from the gate. We sit 20 feet from the gate for the next four hours while United tries to fix a technical problem. To [...]

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Preferred Status Guy Saves The Day

January 8, 2010 Delay Stories

In March of 2009 I flew from Newburgh, NY to Buffalo, NY by way of Philadephia with USAir. The whole trip was meant to take 3 hours, so the stopover wasn’t a big deal.
The first leg of the travel went fine. I sat down at my gate in Philadelphia, and with 15 minutes until departure [...]

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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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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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A Flight From Hell In Five Acts

December 31, 2009 Delay Stories

Prelude
We were scheduled to go to a National meeting in Tampa on 9/16/06. Our flight and hotel arrangements were made months ahead of time.
September 11, 2006
4:30 pm – automated phone call from Delta airlines at work. It was rapidly giving me a lot of information about a schedule change for September 12. The new schedule [...]

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Some Things Just Don’t Change (Except For Better Wireless Service)

December 30, 2009 Delay Stories

I took my three children from Idaho to Virginia with a change of planes in New Jersey. The first leg of the trip was fine. In New Jersey, there were flight delays due to rain. There wasn’t enough room for everyone to sit down and it was very crowded. One man seemed to think it [...]

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Left In A Lurch

December 27, 2009 Delay Stories

I used American Airlines for a college spring break trip and will never fly with them again. We paid $1000 for a week-long trip to the Dominican Republic. At the end of our stay, we were told there was a snowstorm in the US and we would be unable to fly back at our regularly [...]

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Interminable Delays

December 3, 2009 Delay Stories

This was last year in 2008 from a flight that was SUPPOSED to be from San Francisco to Los Angeles with a connecting flight to Honolulu. All in all, everything was going well on the way to SFO.
…Until we found out our flight was canceled and they put us in a line for about 45 [...]

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Student’s Grueling Trip Home

November 23, 2009 Delay Stories

Two years ago I was applying to graduate schools on the east coast. I had an interview at the University of Connecticut and had flown in from Michigan the night before. I chose to leave a day early and pay for a hotel just in case there were delays and whatnot as it was still [...]

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