Flights From Hell

Irritated with Iberia

Gregg - admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:49:33 +0000

In 1990, I flew from JFK to Málaga, Spain. I picked Iberia over TWA because the Iberia flight did not require a change of planes in Madrid, just a stop. Since I do not speak Spanish, I was worried about encountering problems at Madrid airport. However, when I arrived at JFK, I learned that Iberia [...]

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Chaos in the Cabin

Gregg - admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:04:19 +0000

Living in Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa, my family and I decided to take a small holiday to Kariba Lake in Zimbabwe. Having arrived early at the airport to maximize our margin, we saw that the flight was delayed by an hour. This was already hard to handle as it was midsummer with scorching heat; the terminal [...]

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Bumped Without Compensation

Gregg - admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:39:18 +0000

Once again, Delta overbooked the flight. Not only did they overbook, but because the flight left from Accra, Ghana, Delta Airlines felt they could get away with bumping 60-70 people without compensation. The explanation: “Why didn’t you check-in for your flight 6 hours before takeoff like other people did?” Well, now we know who checked-in [...]

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Security Madness in Mozambique

Gregg - admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:30:38 +0000

The first time I went to Mozambique I was en route from Swaziland to Zimbabwe and had a whole day’s layover in Maputo Airport. I was restricted to the un-airconditioned departure lounge for eight hot humid hours; I didn’t even have a book to read. At 4:00pm I wandered through the airport terminal when something [...]

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Maggots on Planes

Gregg - admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:59:47 +0000

Airlines aren’t known for the quality of their food, but a woman on a Qantas flight wasn’t expecting her snack to be a complete gross-out. While flying from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia Victoria Cleven discovered an unexpected ingredient in the package of trail mix that she purchased on the plane. While eating the food [...]

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Ticked Off over Travel Annoyances

Gregg - admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:13:11 +0000

I’ve never enjoyed flying, but traveling the world is a passion of mine too great to give up, so flying is an obvious necessity. I’ve actually had positive experiences flying for the most part as well… until recently coming back from Cape Town, South Africa. For those who have never experienced it, flying to and [...]

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Standby Passengers Given Priority

Gregg - admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:40:48 +0000

We were flying to DCA from ROC for a meeting on US Airways through Philadelphia. The first flight was delayed. We arrived in Philadelphia with boarding passes in hand for the PHL-DCA flight, and fortunately the gate was immediately next to our arrival gate. The flight was boarding. Standby passengers were waiting at the gate [...]

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Flight Problems and Peculiar Hotel Check-In

Gregg - admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:27:42 +0000

I had thought/ hoped that I´d never have a story of my own to share here, but while this is maybe minor stuff compared to many other stories, it does qualify, I´d say. My co-worker and I were supposed to fly to Amsterdam and continue from there on our connecting flight to Germany. Due to [...]

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Barf Bags Needed after Baritone’s Bender

Gregg - admin — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:00:22 +0000

My flights from Hell began with fifty other people, all of whom I knew. By the time we reached our destination together, none of them would have continued to associate themselves with me had we not needed to sing together for the next two weeks. This was the Colby Chorale; this was Spring Break; this [...]

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Travel Purgatory Turns Heavenly

Gregg - admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:45:45 +0000

I flew from PHX to Des Moines for work. Only direct flight was sold-out. Next best option? PHX-Denver-Des Moines. Sold out. OK, how about PHX-Minneapolis-Des Moines? Good to go. Only bad thing was the flight home. Only way was Des Moines to Detroit then Detroit to PHX. Ugh. So the flight there was uneventful. Flight [...]

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