Airlines Suck
I was supposed to go to work today. I woke up at 6am to catch a flight from Vail, CO to Los Angeles but of course my flight has been delayed. Shocker!
And it’s not because we’re snowed in or the engine failed or a deranged mental patient is pretending to be a terrorist. No, my 8 am commuter flight from Vail to Denver has been delayed for crew rest.
A 24 minute flight that runs on a bus schedule has been delayed over three hours because the crew needs to rest. Which is only odd because it’s the first flight out and I’m sitting in between two stewardesses which leads me to believe that maybe the pilot hit the snooze button one too many times.
And there in lies the problem with airlines. You’re completely at their mercy. If the pilot wants to sit at home and eat ring dings and ho-hos and jam out to Def Leopard’s greatest hits, then I have to sit and wait.
Meanwhile I’m missing my connecting flight from Denver to Los Angeles which just might be part of their early morning joke to ruin my day because they’re re-routing me from Denver to Palm Springs and Palm Springs to Ontario and Ontario to Los Angeles. Why not just send me through Saigon? I always wanted to see the inside of a Vietnamese whore house.
Of course while I write this they just announced that there now is a mechanical problem. It’s just funny that they couldn’t fix it while the crew was resting because now I’m going to miss my Palm Springs connection. Maybe I will get to see that whore house after all.
So needless to say, David if you’re reading this, I won’t be into work today.
