June 2009

Have to love this story. Last year, my flight from Washington, DC, to San Francisco kept getting delayed because of thunderstorms. A flight that was supposed to take off at 6:00 PM didn’t take off until midnight. Anyway, after numerous fits and starts, people moving from one gate to another, promises from the airline, etc., […]

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Being a hockey fan, I purchased a ticket to a Boston Bruins hockey game as I was preparing to take a trip to Boston for business one January. My flight was booked from Charleston, WV through Pittsburgh and on to Boston on the same day as the game. I knew I had enough time once […]

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This doesn’t really concern a flight so much as the shady service I was subjected to at Delta’s terminal in LaGuardia on my way to Disney World. I was on my way to Florida with my fiancée, and it was 7 am. We were dropped off at the terminal and everything was going great until […]

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My husband and I were taking a short vacation to Tempe, AZ to watch Oakland A’s Baseball Spring Training. We had to drive from Modesto, CA to Oakland, CA, about a 60 mile distance to the airport. We allowed ourselves 2 hours for the trip, and as it would happen, there was a car accident […]

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I travel quite a bit and normal delays really are just part of travel. But when I am flying on business I need my photo gear to shoot the job. I arrive early to get through TSA and wait by the gate, as the airline has computer check in and if you check in 24 […]

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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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My wife and I took a round trip flight from L.A. to Bangkok on Thai Air. The flight to Thailand was marvelous! The food was superb, the service was excellent, and the plane, along with all the amenities, was great. However, the return trip was quite the opposite. Our plane was taken out of service […]

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It was late on a Friday afternoon. A bunch of us were flying from Memphis to Little Rock on a puddle jumper. The flight was delayed so we all decided to get something to eat. In the Memphis airport at the time, about the only food to eat was hot dogs. All of us got […]

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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 […]

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On a Friday night I took a United flight from Boston to Chicago. I was sitting in an aisle seat with extended leg room when this 20ish woman asked if I would change seats with her so she could sit with her grandmother who was sitting in the middle seat. When I asked her where […]

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Space Invader

June 6, 2009

in Seat Stories

I was on the 2nd leg of a trip back home, flying from Vienna to Washington D.C. I was already desperately tired after being in Armenia for a few weeks. It was daylight out for the duration of this flight, and I was looking forward to tilting my seat back a few inches in an […]

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One of the worst flights I had ever been on started as one of the best flights. I was 8 ½ months pregnant, almost 6 weeks from my due date and had no choice but to fly from Frankfurt Germany to Sacramento CA. Yeah a long flight. All the gate agents/attendants were really nice and […]

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