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Odds & Ends Stories

Middle Seat Hell

November 11, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

At the time I worked for a marketing firm. I was just starting out and so I got to do the jobs that no one else wanted. This time I was flying around the west coast, stopping in each and every airport interviewing travelers about new travel products.
If spending all day in nothing but planes [...]

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Olympic Sprint, Suffocated, Lost Bags

November 1, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

My flight from hell was a trip from San Diego to Budapest. My initial flight to Amsterdam was fairly standard and uneventful. However, upon landing in Amsterdam is when the “fun” began. I had approximately two or three hours I think to switch planes. But because I was switching to a local airline from Hungary, I [...]

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Sinister Object In The Sky

October 31, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

I’ve often wondered if any airline passengers of faith have seen strange or sinister objects in the sky.
Many years ago, on a Honolulu to Papatee (Tahiti) flight, I was peering mindlessly out of the windscreen into the moonlit night sky when something strange caught my eye. Borrowing First Navigation Officer T. Nolte’s binoculars, I proceeded [...]

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Escape From A War Zone

September 23, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

This story never really made it to “Flight from Hell” status, but it contained all the stress levels of my worst trips ever and could have easily slid to a hellish trip at any point. I would say it was more of a “Flight from a slightly unsettling place,” but interesting none the less.
My business [...]

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Tinkle Ticks Off Traveler

September 15, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

I boarded a flight on Continental in which when I arrived to my seat the cushion was pulled out and had a giant wet spot. I walked against the stream to get to the flight attendant to let her know. She told me that maintenance was changing out the seat. I waited quite a while [...]

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The Pre- And Post- Flight From Hell

September 14, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

This is not so much about a hellish flight, because the flight was fine, it was the getting to and from the flight that was hell.  Do you know how, when there is an accident, the investigators rarely find a single proximate cause?  Instead, they find a chain of improbable events that conspired to eventually [...]

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Ticket Troubles

August 4, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

My brother recently went on a class trip to Costa Rica during spring break. After they visited Costa Rica, they tried to drive to Texas to take a flight to St. Louis. They knew they weren’t going to make it on time though, so my brother’s teacher called into the airline, and the whole class [...]

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Encounter With A Political Pooh Bah & Camped Out In A Hobo City

June 14, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

In 2007 I was asked to be in a wedding of a former college roommate. I lived in Tennessee, the wedding was in Nebraska. On top of that, the wedding was the weekend before Christmas (which was on a Tuesday.) My family lives in Michigan, which I was leaving Nebraska and flying straight there for [...]

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Merry Christmas And A Not So Happy New Year

June 8, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

On a flight from Miami returning to the UK on new years eve 2005 (arriving in the UK in 2006) we had a lovely time….
The first problems were the reclining seats. The passengers in front of us had their seats pushed all the way back. Fine, that’s what they are for. So, we all put [...]

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Survived A War – Injured Coming Home

May 7, 2009 Odds & Ends Stories

My flight from Hell was kind of a series of adventures. I was returning from active duty in Iraq with my unit, returning home. We had to wait in a hooch tent for hours (the smart ones got some sleep in) then we were herded like cattle to our plane. Unlike previous flights, I got [...]

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