Random Rants
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Today's my turn for travel misery.
I'm booked onto a 5:15 am flight from Melbourne to Manchester via Dubai, but I'm currently living three hours from the airport.
On the train down, I check my flight details and find my seat has been deallocated. The only seats left are a couple on the exit row, with a $210 upcharge.
I call the airline's helpline, and the girl tells me that I can either pay the upcharge, or get to the airport early and speak with staff there. But when I arrive at the airport, I find that there isn't a help desk and I have to wait for check-in to open at around 2 am.
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@Graeme Best of luck and I feel your pain. I think travel has changed quite a bit from the golden age. Hard to think that flying used to be an event, and the people flying were treated better than a herd of cattle.
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Fuck United Airlines with a bundle of rebar.
After going to the San Diego airport twice yesterday for flights that got cancelled, and I suspect they knew were unlikely to occur for various reasons I won’t get into, I book the only option fucking two days out and get on the standby they offer for a flight this morning. I’m second in line there. But I can’t get a boarding pass to get through security because my backup flight is >24 hours out. How does this happen? This is the third goddamn time they’ve made me go to the airport for nothing in two days. I had to book an emergency room last night. In what world is this sensible or acceptable cos it ain’t this one.
I have to work through a travel agent so the obvious move of refunding and choosing an alternative one way flight is in her hands while I wait.
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Thanks man. I was a Southwest guy but shifted for international flights. Those are kind of the only options here for flexibility if you prefer direct flights.
Both have shit the bed prodigiously of late.
I really miss Northwest when I lived in Minneapolis and wish Delta were viable in Denver.
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Yup. I feel your pain. Hope this gets sorted fast and you can get out successfully.
I suppose if it's still terrible out of SD, maybe your agent can get you a car to drive to LAX where there could be more options?
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Thanks—I got lucky and made a standby.
The far flung geography and limited public transit of SoCal are not ideal. I was checking airports all the way to LAX with no luck. I am so grateful to have been at the top of the standby list. What a shit show!
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Just laughing at the fact that this thread has 11,857 posts! Nothing quite unites people of the world like a good old rant! Being a middle aged man I'm getting increasingly partial to a good old rant myself! My wife often refers to me as Victor Meldrew. For those from outside of the UK and partial to a good old rant look up Victor Meldrew and One Foot in the Grave. A brilliant sitcom about a grumpy old man.
