happy birthday teresa!!
I spent a long loooooooooooong day in the Denver airport. I just want to get to LaGuardia, people. Have a little mercy!
Apparently, winds were gusting as high as 40 mph and LaGuardia was only allowing planes to land on one runway which caused lots of flights to be canceled and the flights that were still scheduled were loaded up with the passengers from the canceled flights. My flight luckily was not canceled, only delayed a few hours. But when I finally arrived at LaGuardia, my bags were nowhere to be found. They hadn’t made it onto my plane. I guess United thought they’d be nice to the people who had their flights canceled by making sure their bags came first. But those of us whose flights weren’t canceled were luggage-less. Great. The options were we could either wait 2 more hours for another plane to arrive which was supposedly bringing our bags, or we could wait up to 48 hours to have our bags delivered. Great.
Since I have an international flight to catch the day after tomorrow, they told me that I should wait the 2 hours as they couldn’t guarantee my bags would arrive before I left for the airport. Great. Ixel and Michael picked me up at the airport and Michael was kind enough to come keep me company but poor Ixel was sitting in the car dying to leave at 8:30pm is waaaayyyy past her bedtime!
Now, those of you who know me well know how often my luggage gets completely and utterly lost - POOF! It’s a strange but true fact in my life and I don’t know why. I must have really bad karma or something. My luggage gets lost at least once a year. That is a lot. Most people lose their bags once in their lifetime! So for United to ask me to sit around and wait for two hours in addition to making Ixel and Michael wait around as well for those two hours is quite a lofty proposition because I mean, who knows if I’ll even get my luggage after waiting those 2 hours. Also, when they say 2 hours, they might mean 2 days but just want to make you feel better about the wait time. Who knows. But we stayed around and waited. There was a mutiny all around us. The other passengers were pissed and not afraid to show it. They were threatening the poor man whose job it was to inform us that our bags were on another plane.
One guy was screaming, “Lies! All lies!!” and another man was screaming for a supervisor. Then there was a woman who was trying to start a national debate over the issues. The United representative must’ve been in this sort of situation because he was able to handle them all fairly well. I was the only one who wasn’t mean to him, and guess what?! I WAS THE ONLY PASSENGER WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THE VOUCHER FOR $25 OFF YOUR NEXT UNITED TICKET PURCHASE!!