#26
Posted: 8/20/05 at 7:46am
One day a couple of years ago, it took me nearly 8 hours to complete a 1-1/4 hour flight. It started when the plane I was supposed to be on was late, and when it finally arrived, it ended up quarantined on the runway with a SARS scare (remember SARS?). I had to run back to the ticketing counter to get on a later flight, then that was late; the destination airport was swamped with terrible storms that day and kept shutting down. My 10:15-turned-12:30 flight finally took off around 2:00. It was storming again at destination, though, so we started circling about 20 minutes out from there - then the Captain said, well, we don't have enough gas to keep circling as long as they want us to, so we ended up making a pit stop for fuel at a small airport out of the way. I'm serious, we're talking one little square terminal building on the pavement, and the plane (small regional jet) pulled up right in front of the door. Once we were down, they held us there (for 2 1/2 hours) until the destination airport could finally handle us, and it was seriously 6 pm when we finally got where we were going. I was one of the lucky ones, in that I did not have a connection to make, and now it's a Fun Story, but it wasn't how you'd want to spend the day.
"In my own little corner..."
Updated On: 8/20/05 at 07:46 AM
