I'm currently sitting in Minneapolis St. Paul Airport waiting to hop on a flight to Las Vegas. Its 4:50PM Central and I was supposed to have left at 7:30AM. I was in Philadelphia for a meeting Monday and was supposed to fly out Monday night, get to MSP at around 8PM and then fly out Tues morning. Instead f*(king Nortworst Airlines cancels the flight out of Philly and puts me on another flight leaving at 11AM Tues. East Coast Time and they can't put me on another flight Mon. night. What makes it worse is that I'm flying to Vegas on another airline so NWA can't get me a flight from Philly to Vegas. Also complicating matters is my dad is flying in from Asia to meet me at Vegas and his flight arrived at 3PM Vegas time with him expecting me to meet him there. The hotel is in my name and he doesn't even know the reservation number. I'm hoping he remembered my cell phone number to call me because he's not answering the airport pages. Anyway that's my travel nightmare.
I'm surprised Northwest even to botherd to tell him the flight was canceled and doesn't still have hime waiting while they continue to push the flight back at 30 min intervals. I could truely top that story but don't wanna relive the horror.
As an update made it to Vegas and so did my dad and he managed to get to the hotel. Unfortunately this isn't the end of the nightmare because for work I've found out we suddenly need to get a report out by Friday and since I was doing a lot of the coordinating on in it I've still got to work. I just finished answering emails and for the last two hours in my hotel room and am looking forward to a conference call with some other consultants tomorrow morning along with a few days of answering calls and emails. On top of that another client has a project in Vegas and so while I'm here wants me to look at the site. This is supposed to be my vacation but at least I bill by the hour and can now write this off as a business trip.
That's pretty bad for a domestic flight. My longest wait in an airport without it being planned was 28 hours. This was back in the first few days of the Persian Gulf War I. I was connecting a flight from Kuwait to London. Damn, first Saddam and his Royal Guard made all passengers sit on the plane for 5 hours supposedly taxiing for the next take off flight. Then after 5 hours, they allowed us to get off the plane and spend the next 23 hours sitting in Kuwait airport. The fortunate part was the airport is very nice. After about 28 hours, they finally allow us to leave after the British embassy started putting pressure on the Iraqi's to let us leave the airport. FU Saddam I have some more stories of traveling through Africa and the lost regions of the Middle East, but that'll be for another post.
