| |  Happy New Years 2007!!!!!!
***Hey how do I load pix onto Xanga now? It's changed. Damn it! If anybody knows, share the wealth!!!! Thanks...
I'm back from my trip home to Wisconsin. It was indeed a
white Christmas!!! And then it rained the next day so there was only
ice left for the remainder of the trip. Northwest Airlines is never on
time and if you miss your connecting flight they make it seem like it's
your fault still. They're delayed most of the time! I left
Friday the 22nd from San Antonio on a Northwest Airlines flight to go
home and here's what happened. My flight was delayed more than 30
minutes so I was afraid that I was going to miss my next flight in St.
Paul. We landed 5 minutes prior to the boarding time and I had to
change terminals. Looking on the monitors upon arrival I noticed
that my next flight was canceled and had to go to the ticket counter
for assistance. Tell me why Northwest has about 20 ticket
counters and only the last one was able to reissue tickets.
The guy behind the counter was not helpful. He didn't even try
to see if I could get another flight out that night, instead I was
booked for tommorow. When I asked if my accomodations were going
to be paid for he said no and gave me a 1-800 number to call to check
for available hotels in the local area. Turns out, the guy behind
me was on the same flight from san antonio and was told the same
thing from that guy. (there was also this really annoying little
dog that yipped the whole entire flight...goodness! who so happened to
be 2 rows behind me) I refused to pay $89 for something that I
had no fault in so I ended up sleeping in the Armed Forces
Center(USO). Thanks Armed Forces Center in St.Paul!!!
I found out the next day that the guy behind me slept on 4 chairs in
the air port. The next morning our flight also took off about 40
minutes late. When we finally were descending about to land in WI
the plane started climbing back up again and 5 minutes later the flight
attendent comes on the loud system to inform us that they didn't really
know what was going on. About 15 minutes later the pilot comes on
and says that the first flight line was closed due to 'a broken air
craft on the flight line' and the second one due to high tail
winds. We were diverted to another air port which took another
20-25 to reach.
When we finally landed at the diverted air port we had to wait around
for about an hour for a bus to arrive to bus us over to our orginal
destination. It was a 2 1/2 hour ride back to the air port that
we were supposed to land at. During the bus ride me and that
other guy were talking to some of the other passengers and found that
they were offered all accomodations paid for so the majority of them
slept in hotels. You can say I was not a happy panda when I heard
this... Hate flying Northwest but that's the only air line that
flys to central Wisconsin besides Midwest. Love Midwest!
You get fresh baked cookies on the flight. My wallet on the other
hand wasn't able to like Midwest :(
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