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(Sorry long post)
I know what you are all thinking. Who the fuck is stupid enough to deal with the airlines around Christmas time? Well let it be known that @Poor_and_Stupid knew it was bad idea, but he let his wife’s family drag him along anyhow.
We were flying out to see my brother-in-law who is in the Marines. He’s based at Quantico, Virginia which is just south of D.C.
The first bad omen came a few days before we left. We had a direct flight from Omaha to D.C. that got cancelled. Now we had to fly into Chicago (now to be referred to as Chiraq for the rest of the post.) The flight from Omaha to Chiraq was good. It was pretty much right on time. Got to Chiraq Midway (we were flying Southwest) around 12:00 P.M. and our connection to D.C. was scheduled for 1:00. It had already been delayed to 1:40 but no big deal.
We find our gate and we are there for about an hour and then they announce that the plane we were supposed to fly on has been decommissioned for maintenance or something like that so they send us to another gate. After 45 minutes at the next gate they tell us they are changing the gate again. We head to that gate and wait around for at least an hour before they tell us they need to find one more flight attendant. I think it was about 4:00 when one showed up to cheers from many of the poor souls in attendance.
They promptly get us on the plane. We are sitting for awhile and nothing is happening. My mother-in-law then says that they are now taking luggage back out of the plane. We were told that they put baggage from the next flight on our plane and that they were sorting it out. This took like 2 hours. The flight attendants said they didn’t know what the hold up was, but we thought they were keeping something from us.
Now I think it was roughly 6:30 and now since that took so long one of our pilot’s timed out and couldn’t legally fly the plane. So now they are looking for another pilot. They actually let us deplane and buy food which I’ve never seen before. Roughly 8:00 another pilot shows up to cheers from the passengers. Things are looking positive, but then another pilot shows up. They are having a discussion and their facial expressions are concerning. Both of these guys showed up but we only needed one of them. Our copilot was still a guy from earlier. They were on the phone trying to figure out which one of them was officially supposed to fly the plane or some shit like that. It was about 9:00 by the time that finally got sorted out.
The plane is finally airborne a sometime after 10:00. Things are looking up, but it was a false sense of hope. This post is getting too long so in short, we waited around the baggage claim until 4:00 A.M. eastern time but our bags would never come up. Tons of bags were coming but they were from a bunch of cancelled flights. Finally we were told from some other people on our flight that the baggage service lady told them that our entire flight’s luggage was still in Chiraq. Thanks for letting us stand around for 4 hours for nothing stupid cock suckers. At least announce that to us. Not sure where our shit is but they say it should still come to D.C. but I guess we will see.
Hope everyone had a better Christmas Day than me. Only success of the whole experience was that the plane didn’t crash.
I know what you are all thinking. Who the fuck is stupid enough to deal with the airlines around Christmas time? Well let it be known that @Poor_and_Stupid knew it was bad idea, but he let his wife’s family drag him along anyhow.
We were flying out to see my brother-in-law who is in the Marines. He’s based at Quantico, Virginia which is just south of D.C.
The first bad omen came a few days before we left. We had a direct flight from Omaha to D.C. that got cancelled. Now we had to fly into Chicago (now to be referred to as Chiraq for the rest of the post.) The flight from Omaha to Chiraq was good. It was pretty much right on time. Got to Chiraq Midway (we were flying Southwest) around 12:00 P.M. and our connection to D.C. was scheduled for 1:00. It had already been delayed to 1:40 but no big deal.
We find our gate and we are there for about an hour and then they announce that the plane we were supposed to fly on has been decommissioned for maintenance or something like that so they send us to another gate. After 45 minutes at the next gate they tell us they are changing the gate again. We head to that gate and wait around for at least an hour before they tell us they need to find one more flight attendant. I think it was about 4:00 when one showed up to cheers from many of the poor souls in attendance.
They promptly get us on the plane. We are sitting for awhile and nothing is happening. My mother-in-law then says that they are now taking luggage back out of the plane. We were told that they put baggage from the next flight on our plane and that they were sorting it out. This took like 2 hours. The flight attendants said they didn’t know what the hold up was, but we thought they were keeping something from us.
Now I think it was roughly 6:30 and now since that took so long one of our pilot’s timed out and couldn’t legally fly the plane. So now they are looking for another pilot. They actually let us deplane and buy food which I’ve never seen before. Roughly 8:00 another pilot shows up to cheers from the passengers. Things are looking positive, but then another pilot shows up. They are having a discussion and their facial expressions are concerning. Both of these guys showed up but we only needed one of them. Our copilot was still a guy from earlier. They were on the phone trying to figure out which one of them was officially supposed to fly the plane or some shit like that. It was about 9:00 by the time that finally got sorted out.
The plane is finally airborne a sometime after 10:00. Things are looking up, but it was a false sense of hope. This post is getting too long so in short, we waited around the baggage claim until 4:00 A.M. eastern time but our bags would never come up. Tons of bags were coming but they were from a bunch of cancelled flights. Finally we were told from some other people on our flight that the baggage service lady told them that our entire flight’s luggage was still in Chiraq. Thanks for letting us stand around for 4 hours for nothing stupid cock suckers. At least announce that to us. Not sure where our shit is but they say it should still come to D.C. but I guess we will see.
Hope everyone had a better Christmas Day than me. Only success of the whole experience was that the plane didn’t crash.
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