Grrrrrr…. Air Travel=Terrible
well im home… after grueling delays, lines, switching of flights, and of course having my bags lost. Heres what happened. My flight from cabo was at 5pm connecting in Phoenix to santa barbara california (at around 7pm so we had 1hour to go through custsoms etc). My dad and i both agreed that we should try to take an earlier flight out (the 4pm flight) so we could have some more time to go through customs. so we got to the airport around 1pm, after joining the massive line we did not get to the agent until 4pm 
so it was to late! We knew that unless we RAN when we landed in phoenix we were pretty much fucked.
well, worst came to worst and when we landed they could not find a gate so we had to sit in the tarmac for 30minutes. Once we finally got a gate me, my brother, and dad ran as fast as possible to get through immigration and than went to fetch our luggage. Of Course; our luggage had to take forever so that was when we new that we were probably stranded in phoenix. After customs, we went to the transfers desk and the lady told us that we could make it if we ran. We gave her our bags and ran as fast as possible… But; the security line totally killed us :(! Once we knew we had missed our flight we had 2 options: 1. Be stranded in Phoenix till 7am next morning with No luggage or 2. Catch a flight to vegas that was taking off 10 minutes from than, than go vegas to santa barbara at midnight. We took option 2 and landed in vegas at around 8:45 pm. We had till 11:50 so we decided to leave the airport and go have some dinner at the MGM Grand Buffet (it was freaking good by the way :P). We than got back to the airport at 10:50 and were on our flight to santa barbara at 11:50.
Once we landed, we went to the baggage claim and our bags were NOT there!!!!
so at 1am after traveling through mexico, arizona, vegas, and now california we had to wait in line to file a ‘claim’ we did it and left to goto sleep…. Long story short they just informed us that they have found our baggage and are transporting it to our house… GRRRRRR@ AIR TRAVEL!
i would like to now blog about how i did a small (new) test with online dating buti have to go back to school shopping (lame)…
Later,
Harrison
I completely understand that type of situation! From a military point of view I have been everywhere and back with all the Grrr’s and screams that come along with air travel.. except my case I was going somewhere I didn’t want to be!
So whats up with that test on dating?
Talk Soon,
Toki
P.S. I kind of miss school shopping…
Comment by Toki — August 26, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
The best thing you can do to make things run smoothly for yourself at the airport is to go on eBay and purchase the logo merchandise of the airline. Get items like luggage straps, hats, t-shirts, etc… (People will assume you are an employee and treat you diffrently.
Lets say you’re flying on United… You have a United Luggage Strap on your bag. The baggage handlers will treat it differently because they will believe the bag belongs to a fellow employee who can more easily call to complain that the guy on the street. Same with the United Baseball cap. The ticketing agent will assume you or a family member works at the airline and will make sure to do things right. (Trust me on this, I’ve worked at airlines)
Comment by Hawaii SEO — August 27, 2007 @ 4:17 am
I highly recommend avoiding checked baggage. I always pack in a carry-on sized bag when I am on trips that last less than a week (or have a laundromat) to avoid checking my bags. It saves you tons of time waiting for your bags at baggage claim and you don’t risk them getting lost.
Comment by Kevin — August 27, 2007 @ 3:30 pm