Travel hell...
Thursday Mar 20, 2008
The glamors of business travel. I needed to go to NY City, certainly one of my favorite destinations and did enjoy myself. The trouble started on my return home. I got to the airport like a good person about 2 full hours ahead of time and saw that an earlier flight back to Richmond, VA (RIC) was delayed. I switched my scheduled flight for the earlier now delayed flight. At some point, that earlier flight was canceled and my original flight was then oversold and had a wait, so I moved to the 10pm flight. It turns out sadly, that the original flight was the only flight to leave LaGuardia ontime or close yesterday. After a while, my 10pm flight was canceled so I decided to abandon my car in RIC and switch to Charlottesville flight (my home town and an hour from RIC). That flight went from 7:30pm to 9pm to finally 12:30am which delays in 15 minutes chunks.
It was funny that a small group of travelers ended up being buddies and watching bags, getting waters/drinks for each other. We finally cheered when our inbound aircraft was in the air and at the gate. The flight down was bumpy on the prop plane and the landing was downright scary as the high winds made it tough for the pilot.
One note that did work out great. I called for a taxi from NY knowing that my small local airport that closes up doors around midnight would be taxi less at 2:00am. When I arrived I had a taxi waiting and everyone else was bumming. That said, my driver called for backups but that likely added another 10-15 minutes for the already delayed travelers.
I guess I was overdue for a trip like this...
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