one_eyed_teacher
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Quite a few years ago (in the 1990's) I was returning from a business meeting in the DC area during a snow storm. Even though I arrived at the airport less than 20 minutes before the scheduled flight departure, they checked me in; that was at 5:30 p.m. We boarded the DC10 at around 6.
The plane took off to San Francisco after 11:30 p.m. We sat in the plane for 5 hours on the ground and nearly 6 hours in the air.
During our delay the plane was de-iced at least 3 times, beginning at the gate, and then out at the taxiway. Our final de-icing took nearly an hour because the service vehicle ran out of the de-icing solution midway through the process and had to head back to the maintenance shop to reload. between the round trip and reloading it was another half hour after which they had to restart the de-icing of our plane.
I was lucky. I had taken a frequent flier upgrade to first class. I had a lovely extended conversation with the business reporter of one of our local TV stations. Had he been any other TV "journalist", that would have been a painful encoiunter, but he was that rare broadcast personality whom I genuinely respected.
They did not serve dinner while we waited and beverages were only available in first class (where they don't need to roll a cart out to serve.)
But I consider myself fortunate. My next door neighbor was in Dallas on September 11, 2001. He eventually gave up waiting and drove a rental car from Dallas/Ft. Worth airport to just north of San Francisco. |
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Kathy09
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5 hours, when they needed to check my passport and the other certifications b/c I'm from other country. They did three interviews with me and asked me a lot a lot of questions, and I lost the other airplanes to go the next state b/c of all that. It was a very very very long delay. |
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Scab5000
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almost 2day, it happened cause of the black out in new york and they rerouted the plane to greenland which is not green at all, and sat us there for 2 days til the got contact again |
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faith♥missouri
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I guess we have been lucky and never had any delays on our flights.
~faith |
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Kaytlenn
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5 hours in the Alanta DELTA airport |
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Chris M
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overnight, one time was held 'up' and stayed in a distant city, a price for not flying direct to the destination. airline paid for the room though.. : } memphis |
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Jaami Roo
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In May 2001 at LaGuardia airport when all afternoon flights after 3 pm were cancelled due to bad weather and the next flight offered was at 9:00 am on the following day. |
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cgminime
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Longest delay was six hours while the airlines brought in parts to repair the plane. The biggest surprise was actually getting through security with a boarding pass that was over a week old! So much for security!! |
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Sparkles
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Three and one-half hours during Christmas. There was a snow storm. We were luckier than the folks in Denver. |
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cicely a
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5 hours in Barcelona. |
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jamaicabound191
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6 hours in Washington, D.C. because Laguardia was shut down for weather. |
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melissa
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2 hours |
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Jenn
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Overnight, 6+ hrs in the Philly international airport. Not pleasent, we slept in a hallway because all of the hotels were sold out and didn't have a car. And we used a table skirt as a blanket, brr it gets cold in there! |
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Jack
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0.5hour^_^ |
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purpleyurt
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Four hours, but I was lucky, my parents were stuck for two days in Idaho because of ice. The really ironic part is that they were coming back from Tuscon, Arizona. |
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Julie
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Only 11 hours, but I was 12 so it seemed like an eternity. Especially since I was in St. Louis and that airport is 99 terminals LONG... Doesn't sound too bad, right?
Well, we had just gotten off a 3 hour flight that was delayed as well. Then my mother, the sweet lady she is, had me running back and forth to go get these old ladies ice cream. The parlor was at the other end of the airport and as soon as I got one for ONE lady, another would see it and say, "oh, boy, doesn't that looks swell..." so you guessed it, I made several trips to that damn ice cream shop and our flight was delayed due to a snow storm! Who dies for ice cream at a time like that? GIVE ME A BREAK! |
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shunsagitario
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ami of 1 month so that they did not find that my passport by is better to buy them in commits 1 week before. ♥♥♥t.q.m |
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sher
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as i tried it is the conformation of the passport & that depend on the security men |
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Skipper
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about 10 hours when i was in New York it was a pain in the ***!
~skipper~ |
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hasafer
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when I was 10 years old I stayed at the airport for one day cz I forgot my passport I was travelling to kaseem in saudi arabia from cairo , I was delayed in jeddah airport [ the one stop air port ] also at the american airport I 'm having such hardtime for nothing |
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jimbo2333
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the lines at the ticket counter or security. That is why I arrive at the airport one hour early. |
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christine w
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8 hrs in amsterdam,3 of those hrs onboard the plane |
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ceeyathere
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after flying for 5 hours and the time change, 16 hours in LAX, when the pilots werent into only able to fly past 8hours, and the airlines couldnt find pilots to fill in.
what a nightmare, I would have gotten home sooner if I would have thought of taking Greyhound home.
and once in Brazil 3 days. all the flights were booked and to think I paid for my ticket.
but the worst was LA, so close to home, but yet so far away. |
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