O.K, I am in Indianapolis Finally!
Yesterday was prob the worst days flying I have ever done.. My Flight to Chicago was scheduled to leave at 10:40am, being the causiouse traveler I am, I decided to get to SanFrancisco airport just a wee bit earlier than the required 90min, so I got there at about 8:30am (figured I would check in and then just sit around and watch a few episodes of “Prison Break” (great show BTW) anyway by 10am there were talks of Minor Delays, about an hour or so.. as it was, that would be cutting my connecting flight from Chicago a little fine, I went to the Customer Counter for United and asked for a later flight out of Chicago… they assured me that I should still be able to make my 5:45pm connection (in fact I had a whole 15min once I got into Chicago!!) but they booked me in for a 7:45pm Flight Just in case. a few hours later and We still hadn’t taken off from San Fran, I would definately miss my 7:45pm flight too!! I had been waiting in a line to see customer services again for about 1.5hrs (still no closer to the front of the line than when I started!!) they had 1 person from United to deal with everyones problems and each person in the line took between 10-20 min! I was still Halfway down the line when they started boarding my flight…. I had to give up and hope I could sort it out in Chicago..
I arrived in Chicago just after 9pm and luckily my 7:45 flight had still not taken off! apparently there was really bad thunder storms around Chicago and Indiana all day and all flights had been Held up or Canceled ! as it was there were 2 planes still going to Indi but they didn’t have any Crew ! the planes were there waiting.. as were we.. but the crew was on another plane that had also been delayed, by 11:30pm most flights had been Canceled.. ours was still on the board.. well it was until 12pm when all the Info Boards turned off for the night. finally our crew arrived minus one Hostess that got knocked out when opening the door on the last flight… by 12:30 we were being boarded into our plane and by 1am we were airborne 🙂 … the time in Indi was 2:30am when we landed… and we rushed to get our luggage…… which had been put on the wrong plane! luckily that plane was also heading to Indiana and we only had to wait about 40min for it to arrive.. I did meet some friendly people in the lounge at Chicago, they were giving a European Tourist (that they met in San Fran airport) a ride to his hotel in Indianapolis and mine was pretty close so they gave me a lift too, (saved me trying to get a Cab after 3am…) as it was I got into my hotel just befor 4am and climbed into bed 🙂
… still really tired/Jet lagged, we start our rigorouse De-install tomorrow… only 16 days to go befor holidays!!!! YAY!!!!! I hope I make it 😉