Well, this story takes place on a trip from El Paso, TX through Dallas/Fort Worth and then on to Dulles, VA. The trip out to Virginia was fine. No problems whatsoever. The way back however is a different story. I was meeting my 76 year old grandma in Dallas/Fort Worth. Well to begin with, I […]
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My son flew from New England to North Carolina on Continental. He was 13 at the time. I paid $15.00 to book the flight by phone (you can’t do it online) and $100.00 extra for Continental to take him on and off the plane. When the plane landed in NC, my son did as he […]
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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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I’ve been to Dubai many times since 1998; my last trip in 2008 was like the rest except this time I’d taken certain precautions. Many of you must have heard about the extreme punishments dished out to travelers arriving with so called ‘Drugs’, i.e. one man was arrested after he was found to have a poppy seed […]
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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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Last summer, I went overseas. This was the first time I had flown by myself. I first flew into JFK from Atlanta. The departure was delayed, and then once we arrived at JFK we had to sit on the tarmac for a little over an hour. After everyone finally got off the plane, we waited […]
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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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Reading about the dismal attitudes of the flight attendants reminded me of a trip home to Pittsburgh (PA) Greater International Airport. Actually getting there was not the problem, it was getting back and having to deal with incredibly obnoxious gate attendants that was the problem. There were a surprising number of gate attendants. This was […]
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I was flying back to San Francisco from Paris in April 2006. I was a senior in high school then, and being a French citizen I was in Paris taking admission exams for colleges during my 1 week spring break. I was scheduled to fly back to SFO via Dallas on American Airlines. Little did […]
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Flight 83 is a “direct” 12-hour flight from my airport to Hawaii. That’s quote-direct-quote. It carries the same flight number for the full trip but it has a “plane change” in LA. I’m up at 5 am Eastern and at the airport a little before 8 am for the 9 am flight. The departures board […]
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My father and I arrived at Chicago O’Hare airport 5 hours before our scheduled flight to LA. This being Chicago during the winter, our flight was delayed because all the planes had to be de-iced. We began to panic, as we would most likely miss our flight to Sydney, Australia. Once we arrived in LA, […]
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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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