drjeff
Well-known member
About to go to bed after a long 24 hours.
Cousin got married on Saturday, so I flew back for the wedding. Connecting flight from Cincinnati, scheduled at 7:50, got canceled due the plane being stuck in Atlanta in a fairly big storm (Delta got hit pretty bad.) Get to the hotel at about 11:15, takes me about an hour to actually get emails to my boss and a few other people. Wake up at 5, shower, put on the same clothes as I wore yesterday, get to the airport, and fly to Detroit first, then Hartford. Get to Hartford, bags nowhere to be found. File a baggage claim. Get home, get a call from the airport saying my bag was there all along (must've been put with the other luggage within the time it took me to get home, because I checked every bag there.) Ask them to deliver it. 5 hours later, no bag. Call the airport, it's still there. Go back to the airport, pick up the bag, come home, do laundry.
I'm tired.
The funny thing is, I flew Delta this time because US Air ticked me off with how they handled a cancellation last time I flew (yes, two cancellations in a row.) $70 voucher for a hotel room, and they sent staff home on schedule while there were still 100 people waiting to get rebooked. At least Delta handled the situation much better - assigned hotel, with the room fully paid for under a previously negotiated agreement. Decent staffing, too. Took maybe 20 minutes to get rebooked and everything.
I'm so at the point right now when I fly that the 1st thing I do after I book my flight is make sure that I have at minimum the airlines central reservation # saved in my cell phone. It's saved me the hassel/aggrivation of waiting in a line to rebbok after a cancellation more times that I care to count