forgot to mention talk to the folks at AA and believe me in their eyes UA is an abortion. You two have always been pit aganist each other and atleast the folks at AA are proud of never having to file BK like UA did. they have continued to make money while UA participated in the LONGEST BK in the history of America. WHO HAS ISSUES and PROBLEMS? HMMmm those in glass houses!!!
What happen with merge with CO? or DELTA..
I think NW and Delta about to merge from NEWS WEEK
Hello everyone,
Well I am finally getting adjusted to the time change over here
in Europe now. But before that happened I have the time of HELL
getting over here. It was not a pleasant one at all.
I left my house around 4pm EST to head to the airport. Well my flight
out of DCA was all fine and I had to connect in Philadelphia then again the next
day to Madrid to continue onto Barcelona. Everything out of DC went
fine. I got to Philadelphia and everything seemed to be just fine. I was on
the phone talking with friends ect, ect.
I did not get my upgrade in business like I had hoped so I was all settled in
in my seat in coach class (this is a rare one for me to be in coach.) We take
off about 9pm.
About 1 hour into the flight I had fallen asleep. Then the 2nd hour into the flight
I had to get up to use the rest room. Well I noticed that the toilet was not
flushing. I notified the flight attendant that she might want to block off that
lavatory since it was not working. Shortly after that 3 other lavatories shut
down and there were only 2 on the airplane of almost 300 people.
I sat back in my seat and was about to go to sleep again and then captain of
the airplane comes over the intercom and says, "I have some bad news. We
will have to turn around and go back to Philadelphia because we cannot operate
this airplane with only 2 working lavatories. At this point we had to turn back
around and go back 2 hours to Philadelphia. Everyone was cursing on the airplane
and we had not eaten as of yet. We got back into Philadelphia close to 1am. The
mechanics come onto the airplane and fix the problem in less that 10 minutes. It turns
out that someone on the airplane put a few magazine sheets down the toilet! This in turn
clogged the vacuum that is used for the lavatories.
The captain comes on again, "I have more bad news. Your crew here on this flight will
need to be replaced since we will be illegal due to too much time flying." So then
we had to wait almost another 2 hours before the next crew got on the flight. The gate
agent comes on-board and talks on the intercom stating that people who have connections
should get off the airplane and we will rebook them right now. Now lucky for us the airport
was closed and there were no lines except for the people who were connecting. Luckily there
were not that many. I was one of those people. Now you know that most of the people on this
flight were heading back home to Spain. Well the employee of US Airways the LODO or
Language of Desination....since her crew got relieved she went home. There was no LODO to
help translate for the Spaniards for their connecting flights.
Well I wanted to hurry up and get the hell out of there. Thank god I have learned enough Spanish
to communicate well. I made myself useful and translated for the passengers that needed it.
Some of the passengers (Americans) were so angry they canceled their flight to Europe and went
home. After I was done translating the gate agent thanked me. He said since I had helped him
and that one seat opened up in business class he was going to give it to me. I also noticed in
my boarding pass his PHONE NUMBER! I thanked him for his kindness to upgrade me and
he said this was the least he could do and did not cost him anything to do it and thanked me
for saving the airline a lot of time for my translation services.
So we take off around 4am and get to Madrid around 2:30pm Spain time. Well I had missed
my connection and the next flight I was scheduled on was the 5:15pm flight. I was so incredibly
tired at this point. I get to the airplane and we take off and we land in Barcelona just after 6pm.
I go downstairs to baggage claim and I and the few other passengers that were on my original
flight we are all waiting for our bags. Well none of our bags came off the belt. The next flight
from MAD was going to be there in 20 minutes and the employees of the airport said for us to
wait that they should be on the belt. The next flight comes in....NO BAGS. Another flight
was to come in in 20 mins. We wait. NO BAGS.
At this point I am like great. I smell bad, I have no new clothes and I am dead tired. What else
can go wrong at this point? I go to the counter to give them my hotel information for my bags
and then I head off to the hotel.
When I finally get to the hotel around 8pm get checked in. for $200.00
I was not expecting that but that was a good gesture. I was actually kind of shocked they were giving
me this considering the clogged lavatory was not the airlines fault but a stupid passenger. I guess
they just want to keep the passengers happy.
So now I write to you from Barcelona airport on my way to Madrid. I hope this trip goes smooth. It can't
go bad it's only a 45 minute flight. But you never know what can happen I suppose.
