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Worst Plane Ride Ever! - Has anyone had a really bad experience like this?
Has anyone had a really bad experience like this? or worse than this?
Monday I flew back from Arizona to San Diego on my worst plane experience ever. Between the shitty service and the possibility of dying, definitely the worst yet.
It started by my morning flight at 7:40 closing the boarding doors 10 minutes early on Southwest. Mind you I had been up at 6am Arizona time, which is 5am San Diego time.
So I had to catch the next flight out on US Airways at 8:30 am, so I would arrive in San Diego for some appointments at 9am.
I walk through 3 terminals to pick up my reserved tickets with US Air.
When I get there I give the ticket counter guy my ID and he drops it into the counter by mistake.
So they take 15 minutes looking for it until they tell me my plane is boarding in 5 minutes and I'm shit out of luck.
Their supervisor then shows up and also tells me tough shit, no refund, no compensation for loosing my license, and my plane is now shutting the doors in 1 minute.
So I rush over to the gate, as I?m boarding the dick supervisor gives me my ID, he had found it while I was walking to the gate.
That's not the best part......
We were about to touch down in San Diego when they tell us we MAY have to re route to LA. Apparently the Aeronautical flaps on the wings were broken and we needed a longer runway to land on.
It turns out Aeronautical flaps are the flaps on the plane that slow the plane down when landing, which we did not have. Glad I know that now so I can freak out more next time.
To make a long story short, they landed the plane going very fast. As we approached it was fun to see 8 fire trucks and 6 police cars waiting for us on the runway, it really lifts your spirits when you know that they know you may crash and die.
The landing however ended up being surprisingly smooth, and I'm just happy to be alive.
To top it off, I then got to take a 3 hour bus ride through LA Traffic back down to San Diego to finally arrive around 1pm.
What's your story?
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