Missed flights?

wedrum said:
Yes a connecting flight in Atlanta
The airport is humungous
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Did the same last week, but not my thought. My flight to Atlanta was delayed by an hour. Spent the night in crummy hotel. Worst of it is my earlier schedule I was supposed to fly out 4pm with a stop at JFK but that was delayed 30mins.lewvibg 20 minutes to change. Delta rebooked me to a 7pm flight via Atlanta, so I waited 3 hours in the airport. Of course that flight also got delayed by an hour leaving me precisely 10 mins to go from D to A gates. If I kept my original schedule I might have had some chance to make my connection, at the least I wouldn't have spent 4 hours in Montreal and would have spent that time sleeping
 
Yes, almost twice on the trot. I realised my passport had expired whilst laughing at the photos with my dad about 5 hours before the flight. After dropping my dad off at the airport and waving goodbye (gutting) I managed to get an emergency passport renewal for the next day but 5 hours away in Durham, plus change my flights to a nearby airport (Nottingham). Had to leave Bristol at like 3am to get to the passport office, sit around for a bit doing nothing then headed to the airport. I was so tired that I fell asleep upright in departures and woke up to last call for my name. Fortunately I made it but they literally closed the door behind my foot and we were taxiing before my belt was done up
 
Nearly missed a flight sitting in the wrong building at Frankfurt Hahn. Once I realised I had to run to the other building and got there just as they were shutting the gate! I like getting to airports several hours before my flight now.
 
D.P. said:
Did the same last week, but not my thought. My flight to Atlanta was delayed by an hour. Spent the night in crummy hotel. Worst of it is my earlier schedule I was supposed to fly out 4pm with a stop at JFK but that was delayed 30mins.lewvibg 20 minutes to change. Delta rebooked me to a 7pm flight via Atlanta, so I waited 3 hours in the airport. Of course that flight also got delayed by an hour leaving me precisely 10 mins to go from D to A gates. If I kept my original schedule I might have had some chance to make my connection, at the least I wouldn't have spent 4 hours in Montreal and would have spent that time sleeping
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lol yeh think we stayed in a holiday inn located in union city.
good old delta.
 
You'd be amazed at how many people miss their flights. Even more amazing is the amount of people who check in, check a bag in, get through security, then even at the smallest of airports, still cannot get onboard at the right time.

As a person who works in this industry, nothing is more irritating than having to find someones bag in the hold whilst they sit in the terminal fat dumb and happy.

Remember a flight time is the time of departure, as in the time we release the parking brake on the aircraft. Most airlines close doors no later than 5 mins before departure, and board at least 20 mins before.
 
Coming back from Chicago a couple missed their flight at the next gate. The airline people tried to get them.on but security said no and forced them close the gate door.

I did chuckle as they were going mental pointing at the plane outside the window that hadnt left while the wife (I presume) clung onto her starbucks cup as they tried to hudlstle their way on.

Probably the most expensive starbucks she's ever had.
 
Fell asleep in Toronto Airport homeward-bound from work once. Took a rollocking with a b from the boss for the extra expenses...
 
The Running Man said:
Coming back from Chicago a couple missed their flight at the next gate. The airline people tried to get them.on but security said no and forced them close the gate door.

I did chuckle as they were going mental pointing at the plane outside the window that hadnt left while the wife (I presume) clung onto her starbucks cup as they tried to hudlstle their way on.

Probably the most expensive starbucks she's ever had.
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:D

That's how we saw it.. sitting in Gatwick departures with our cases, passports and nowhere to go or do other than to have what seems now like a £500 Costa.
 
Lost a connection flight from Barcelona to London when my plane had to do an emergency landing in Cape Verde because someone was not feeling well, they even asked if there was a doctor onboard but unfortunately the person died.. we had to wait almost 3 hours in Cape Verde, so at the end my flight was 4 hours late
 
FL630 said:
You'd be amazed at how many people miss their flights. Even more amazing is the amount of people who check in, check a bag in, get through security, then even at the smallest of airports, still cannot get onboard at the right time.
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This is the one which I don't understand at how people manage it. There was a guy in work who managed to do this, the joke being there was a party of 20 of them! Somehow all managed to forget about the plane they were meant to get on.
 
I did laugh when we came back from Iceland, a couple were late and were denied on board. At this point the ramp refused to move so we were stuck for 1 hour at the gate. You can imagine the couple anger as we just sat there.
 
We nearly missed our flight back from NYC. We were there with plenty of time. Its just if we hadn't checked in online our seats would have been sold to the couple that were in front of us at the desk.

Over selling flights is a disgusting practice.

We also nearly missed our flight from dublin after a stag do. We were watching Andy Murry on TV and were pushing the gate time. When we decided we had pushed it about far enough we started to make our way to the gate........At the furthest end of dublin airport....That was a long way to run with the bags
 
My Japanese teacher missed her flight back from Tokyo last year ... she had an early morning flight and overslept and woke up 30mins before the flight when she was over an hour away. Cost her a fortune to get a new flight and took ages as she had to use some strange route to get back.
 
My Dad missed a flight last year from East Mids, it was during the Download festival as well as the same time that idiot climbed up a gantry on the M1 and threatened to jump so plod shut the M1 for about 10 hours.

We set off with the usual 2 hours contingency and he only lives half hour from the airport. Insurance refused to pay out.
 
bJN said:
I've watched my flight take off from the departure gate at Stansted, despite constant assurances from airline staff we'd make the flight. Hey ho, managed to get that cost back through credit card company.
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To expand on this, as I was busy at the time, the flight was to Barcelona for our first family holiday in a few years and a friend's family was coming along too. This was right when the baggage strike hit in Spain. The reason we were able to claim all our costs back through the credit card was down to the fact that the airline did not warn us, in sufficient time, about what was going on.

So a short timeline:
4:00am - depart the houses for the journey.
6:30am - arrive at airport, parked up, check-in opens at 8:30am.
8:30am - first in queue for check-in. "Oh sorry, you can't check your bags in." What? "There's a baggage strike in Barcelona, so you can only take hand luggage on board." Okay, well there's still plenty of time, we'll repack and come back.
So we spend the next half an hour buying the biggest hand luggage bags we can manage and repacking 5 suitcases into them for 7 people. Easy task on paper, much harder in reality when there's a very small toddler that requires constant attention and a hysterical mother as a result.
10:00am - bags have been repacked, suitcases stored back in the cars (my lord that was a long run!), everyone back to check-in. Raise concerns with check-in staff that we're starting to cut it a little fine to get the flight. Told "Don't worry, we'll hold the flight, you've checked-in".
10:10am - join the snake queue for security which takes an inexplicable amount of time. I haven't been back to Stansted since, but this queue was wrapping itself all around the check-in area.
11:30am (roughly) - get through security, finally, and airline staff meet us to "fast track" us to the departure gate, going through back passages etc
11:45am - we watch our flight taxi out and take off from the departure gate.

Cue tears from toddler and more hysterics.

Our saving grace was that when we eventually returned home that afternoon, there was an answer message on the home phone that amounted to "Bla Bla calling from seriouslybadairways, there's a baggage strike in Spain, no luggage". It was recorded at 8am. Suffice to say the credit company were very good and as soon as they heard the message that was left (and crucially, the time it was recorded) they refunded us the full amount instantly and chased the airway. If I recall we did actually get a token amount of compensation too.
 
Not missed a flight yet, touch wood. Closest was at JFK, had given ourselves 3 hours to get to the airport from Manhattan but little did I know there was a parade that day so took an hour just to leave Manhattan and got there 1 hour before take off and the lady at the counter said "You might get there but your bags might not".

I got a flight this weekend at 1pm, I plan to be at the airport by 9am….I am not missing this flight!
 
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