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Airport annoyances

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Not exactly an ‘airport’ annoyance, but relating to a flight.

A couple of months ago I bought non-stop flights for myself and my wife to fly from Chicago to Portland in October, a few days before and a couple of days after a certain game at Autzen Stadium. I got an email from American this week saying that ‘my flight times were changed’. This happens often, I’m thinking, they shifted a few minutes either way, no big deal.

But I decided to look more closely, and noticed that the ’change’ meant that we were now routed through Phoenix each way, adding almost 5 hours both days. The email also stated that I could change my flight with no fees. I clicked on the link, and also checked the app, and I only had options via cities like PHX, LAX, etc. The non-stop showed as an option if I delayed by a day. I went through the phone thing, having them call me back when it was my turn. They said the Tuesday non-stop flight from O’Hare to PDX was cancelled, but it still flew on all other days.

So I decided to switch to the Monday flight, which I didn’t do originally since it was more expensive when I booked. I had to make another phone call in order to switch to a day that was previous to the one I booked, since the app and the website didn’t allow that. I was fortunate to get that done on the day of the big computer system outages. Now I need to rearrange my hotels because I was bouncing around Oregon and northern Cali each night.
 
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Agreed. Engineers they're not. Economy is flying 'cattle car', and even Business Class is annoying, just with a schoosh more room. However, unless you have two-three days to drive (and all that entails), there zero alternative. It has always amused me to see the 'pretty girl' worm her way to the sign-in desk and try to weedle (wheedle?) her way into boarding early, when she's in boarding group 8. Haven't encountered the duty-free crowd yet.
 
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BB73 said:
Not exactly an ‘airport’ annoyance, but relating to a flight.

A couple of months ago I bought non-stop flights for myself and my wife to fly from Chicago to Portland in October, a few days before and a couple of days after a certain game at Autzen Stadium. I got an email from American this week saying that ‘my flight times were changed’. This happens often, I’m thinking, they shifted a few minutes either way, no big deal.

But I decided to look more closely, and noticed that the ’change’ meant that we were now routed through Phoenix each way, adding almost 5 hours both days. The email also stated that I could change my flight with no fees. I clicked on the link, and also checked the app, and I only had options via cities like PHX, LAX, etc. The non-stop showed as an option if I delayed by a day. I went through the phone thing, having them call me back when it was my turn. They said the Tuesday non-stop flight from O’Hare to PDX was cancelled, but it still flew on all other days.

So I decided to switch to the Monday flight, which I didn’t do originally since it was more expensive when I booked. I had to make another phone call in order to switch to a day that was previous to the one I booked, since the app and the website didn’t allow that. I was fortunate to get that done on the day of the big computer system outages. Now I need to rearrange my hotels because I was bouncing around Oregon and northern Cali each night.
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Back in the early 90's the only flight I could get from Anchorage, Alaska to Las Vegas had a 9 hour layover in Salt Lake City.
 
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I flew southwest for the first time in forever recently. They kept announcing the two carry-on rule. And they added things like - “If you have a blanket, that is a carry-on. If you have a pillow, that is a carry-on. You are only permitted two items.” There were no issues with not enough overhead space even with a full flight.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Back in the early 90's the only flight I could get from Anchorage, Alaska to Las Vegas had a 9 hour layover in Salt Lake City.
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One Friday in January, 1978 I was flying from Dallas to Toledo via O’Hare and a major blizzard hit. They turned the plane back to St. Louis to re-fuel and try again for Chicago. I knew it was hopeless so I didn’t get back on the plane. I spent the night in St. Louis while the plane tried for O’Hare and again got turned back, but for some stupid reason they sent it to Kansas City that time.

So on Saturday I was in St. Louis, and I knew I had no chance of getting to Toledo by Sunday (the Toledo airport was buried in snow), so I needed to just get to Milwaukee by Monday morning for work. But my luggage was in Kansas City and checked for Toledo, so 4 different cities were involved.

I had been collecting empty beer cans for 2 weeks in Texas for my nephew’s collection, so when I got to O’Hare on Sunday my carry-on was a large plastic bag full of beer cans, and I had been in the same clothes for 3 days. Since the Toledo airport was still closed, I somehow talked them into letting me search for my own bags in the luggage area under the terminal, where they’d never let me today. I actually found my stuff among thousands of bags, and went to Milwaukee the next day.
 
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BB73 said:
One Friday in January, 1978 I was flying from Dallas to Toledo via O’Hare and a major blizzard hit, They turned the plane back to St. Louis to re-fuel and try again for Chicago. I knew it was hopeless so I didn’t get back on the plane. I spent the night in St. Louis while the plane tried for O’Hare and again got turned back, but for some stupid reason they sent it to Kansas City that time.

So on Saturday I was in St. Louis, and I knew I had no chance of getting to Toledo by Sunday (the Toledo airport was buried in snow), so I needed to just get to Milwaukee by Monday morning for work. But my luggage was in Kansas City and checked for Toledo, so 4 different cities were involved.

I had been collecting empty beer cans for 2 weeks in Texas for my nephew’s collection, so when I got to O’Hare on Sunday my carry-on was a large plastic bag full of beer cans, and I had been in the same clothes for 3 days, Since the Toledo airport was still closed, I somehow talked them into letting me search for my own bags in the luggage area under the terminal, where they’d never let me today, I actually found my stuff among thousands of bags, and went to Milwaukee the next day.
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There's a movie in that
 
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What I don't get is why do my bags going underneath the plane need to be under a certain weight? If it's over on the scale, I can move it to my carry-on baggage. That shit is still going on the plane. Does it matter where it is stored so we don't crash? Also I have a 400 lb person sitting next to me. Did you factor that in?
 
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TDunk said:
What I don't get is why do my bags going underneath the plane need to be under a certain weight? If it's over on the scale, I can move it to my carry-on baggage. That shit is still going on the plane. Does it matter where it is stored so we don't crash? Also I have a 400 lb person sitting next to me. Did you factor that in?
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When I worked in the Aleutians we used to take 20 seat prop jobs to and from town. Once there was this 450lbs dude and they made him sit at the back of the plane in the aisle because of his weight.
 
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