Odds & Ends Stories

A Bumpy Ride With Ms. Big Mouth

April 2, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Okay, just want to say that this was a little while ago, so the details are still fuzzy. I was on a flight out of Atlanta, flying on (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Bingo) airlines, which I will never fly again. My mom and I got on the plane, like normal people. Little did I know that [...]

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Flight To Africa Adventure

March 25, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I was traveling to Africa with my husband and friends to volunteer in a refugee camp one summer. We figured our adventures would start as we arrived in Africa, but we were sure wrong. We arrived in LAX for our flight to JFK. We had a 6 hour layover there which we already weren’t looking [...]

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Done With Delta

March 22, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

On 01/2009 my family and I were returning home to Houston on an overnight flight from Guayaquil with a connection in Atlanta after enjoying a wonderful trip to the Galapagos islands. Unfortunately, we were not ready for the surprises that were to come. The first shock hit us in Guayaquil when a Delta checking official [...]

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Memorable Flights From Hell

March 21, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Where to begin? I’ve been flying for business and pleasure for more than 27 years and have had so many flights from hell that I can’t count them. A few of the more memorable ones follow: When the smoking ban first went into place, a drunk boarded the plane from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and proceeded [...]

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Enraged Over Earbuds

March 17, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

This happened to me a few years ago while flying from DC to Atlanta. After the airlines quit handing out free earbuds, I got in the habit of throwing a decent, but not expensive, set in my laptop bag. I was listening to the music channels where you plug into the armrest, but I had [...]

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Return From Paris Is A Nightmare

March 10, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

A while back, my wife (then my girlfriend) and I were in Paris on vacation. We had a wonderful time (even managed to get “bumped” to 1st class on the flight over the pond from MSP 10 days earlier). Well, we reported to CDG in plenty of time for our return flight to Detroit (MSP [...]

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Disabled But Charged To Sit Up Front

March 3, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I don’t have any long horror story about my fellow passengers, just about the airline itself. Recently when I checked into my United flight, I found that we had been assigned seats in the very last row. As I am in a wheelchair, I called the airline to request something a little closer to the [...]

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So Many Stories. Where To Begin?

February 19, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Reno, Nevada. United Airlines. 1989. This airport is in the middle of the city and the flight path is surrounded by hotels. There is a severe windstorm but the pilot decides to land anyway. I have a window seat and am watching in disbelief as the runway veers from left to right as the pilot [...]

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The Family Of Fourteen

February 14, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I was recently on a flight to San Diego to see my fiancee who is stationed there. With the airline’s budget the way it is now, our flight was completely booked. I had a seat towards the rear of the plane, and that is where a new cultural experience started. A Middle Eastern family of [...]

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Voice In Dream Warns Of Plane Problem

February 8, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Can a flight where nothing bad happened be a flight from hell? Several years ago, I was flying UA from Burbank.  At this point, I don’t even remember where I was going.  I just remember that it was a two-plane trip – it had a stop where I had to change planes.  The night before [...]

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