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Yesterday was an Chevy Chase style adventure.
  • My wife's dad died
  • We booked her a flight to her family
  • She believes the flight is at 8p
  • I drop her off at the airport at 6p
  • Her brother calls and says she hasn't showed up 30m after her flight landed
  • We realize her flight was at 6p, she must've missed it, and didn't contact anyone
  • Her phone is off, I can't contact her
  • I check our shared credit card and see a charge from another airline
  • she booked another flight, but we don't know which
  • I call the original airline and the wait time I'm quoted is "549 minutes"
  • I call the new airline and the wait time I'm quoted is "59 minutes"
  • I decide to go to the airport and find flesh and blood humans I can talk to
  • I go to departures and there's no one there, except one guy from neither relevant airline, I ask him what to do
  • he tells me I can go to baggage claim and find an airline representative from the airline and they might have access to flight info
  • the guy there tells me with a wink and a nod that he can't tell me if anyone is on a flight but if they were on a flight to that destination they'd be on one landing right now with a connection to the destination
  • we figured it out, she'll arrive at the destination in a few hours
  • I get ahold of her before her connection and she missed the connection too
  • She now books a third flight that departs in 6 hours
  • Finally this morning she arrives
May k00b in law rest in peace 🙏
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549 minutes...ouch
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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Jun
It was a budget airline. I guess we know one way they cut costs.
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more like Steve Martin in Planes Trains and Automobiles
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