Delay Stories

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 [...]

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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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An Expensive Cup Of Starbucks

November 17, 2009 Delay Stories

I left SNA Orange County Airport on United Airlines with my final destination “Fargo, Dakota.” Our connection is through Denver. We landed on time and it was a nice flight to Denver. I proceeded to my departing gate connecting to Fargo, and waited as other passengers were waiting. Our departure time was 3:45 pm. Then [...]

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Where They Can Stick It

November 16, 2009 Delay Stories

My husband and I flew on WEST JET to Vancouver one weekend to attend his daughter’s graduation. The flight out was grossly late (I have found out that their flights are delayed approximatley 30% of the time – Hawaiaan Air has a 99% success rate of departing on time). Our return flight was 1:00 p.m. [...]

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New Year’s Eve Disaster

November 12, 2009 Delay Stories

While reading this story, please keep in mind that this was the 1st time I had been on a plane by myself AND it was New Year’s Eve. It was a snowy night when I was headed down to Raleigh/Durham Airport from the Providence, RI Airport. I got to the Providence airport on time and [...]

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Jet Screw

November 7, 2009 Delay Stories

A double-whammy… Dateline Chicago O’Hare… My Jet-Blue flight from O’Hare to JFK was slated to depart at about 9:00am. As usual, I arrived at the airport with more than enough time to spare. Everything seemed to go well despite a little unruly August weather. I was excited, because this was my trip home from a [...]

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D. C. to Phoenix In Only 24 Hours

November 6, 2009 Delay Stories

On a flight from Washington D. C. to Phoenix, I experienced a series of fairly normal events that piled up in a comical fashion that resulted in a 24-hour plane flight. It started innocently enough with the plane pulling away from the gate 20 minutes late. We were about fifteenth in line for take-off, so [...]

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Computer System Woes

October 24, 2009 Delay Stories

Summer of 2008, I was returning from a conference in Vienna to my home in the Isle of Man, making a connection through London. Irritatingly enough, as they were on different carriers, the Vienna flight landed in London Heathrow Airport whilst the Isle of Man flight was to depart from London Gatwick Airport. This usually [...]

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