This took place when I was ten years old, on a charter to Aruba. We flew some horribly unprofessional airline, Xtra Airways. We always used to take a limo to Boston/Logan wickedly early in the morning, like 4:00 for a 6:00 departure time. The limo (car) showed up around 3:50, and so did the phone call from Xtra: ”Your flight to Aruba is currently delayed an hour.”
OK, only an hour. We still left immediately, but stopped at a Dunkin Donuts. We arrived at Terminal E and waited in the longest security line possible at 5:00 in the morning, mostly everyone who was on our flight. We had express check-in, but this was unhelpful today.
As of 7:00 no announcement had been made. I was sent over to the gate agent who promptly said, “Fifteen more minutes.”
About an hour later I was assisted greatly by the same response, “Only 15 more minutes.”
We finally boarded at about 8:30, then sat at our gate for 15 minutes (ha ha ha) for no apparent reason.
The FAs on this airline were some of the worst I have had the pleasure to deal with. They were all over 50 and spoke too loudly. Everyone heard “Would you like to spit that up, honey?” as one of them inquired about a man’s odd gagging noises.
Breakfast was served in a paper bag with a frown, and was a stale muffin, old orange juice, and other horribly disgusting “food” which I don’t care to remember. Lunch was nonexistent, and was substituted by a shot of soda and stale pretzels. A number of kids on the plane (including myself) were blowing up the paper bags, and the FA was, well to be polite, a complete asshole about it.
The rest of the flight was fine, but we sat in Aruba for 15 minutes w/o AC to wait for stairs.
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Xtra Airlines, it’ll be 15 more minutes.”
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