The way to not get to Canberra...
Jun. 15th, 2013 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angharad_gam1. Get taxi to airport
2. Check in
3. Wait half an hour until boarding time. Discover plane has been delayed an hour. Le sigh. Thank the Elder Gods for free internet at Adelaide airport
4. Discover that plane has been further delayed for technical reasons
5. Wait total of three hours and find out that flight is cancelled. Door is broken. Concede that this is good reason not to get on plane.
6. Call hotline for new flight booking. Get told that because you booked through a travel agent, airline cannot alter booking. Think 'Now I'm screwed as I cannot contact government travel booking service unless I am actually at work'
7. Notice that colleague has managed to call hotline and is getting new flight booked despite this
8. Try hotline again. Talk to different person who rebooks flight.
9. Go home, for a total of 4.5 hours round trip going precisely nowhere.
10. Get taxi to airport. Get stuck in terrible, terrible traffic. When it seems it cannot possibly get any worse, get stopped at level crossing by train.
11. Arrive at airport 10 mins before boarding time.
12. Notice that check-in queue is very, very, very long. Join anyway.
13. Notice that most other people in check-in queue have boarding passes for your flight. Guy behind you says he was also stuck in traffic. Begin to feel somewhat safer.
14. Get to gate just in time to start boarding
15. Fly to Melbourne (yes, Melbourne)
16. Sit in Melbourne airport for 2 hours
17. Get on plane to Canberra
18. Arrive in Canberra at 3pm the day after you intended to get there, having missed a large (and important) chunk of the conference you were going to attend.
It must have been the week for it. Several other colleagues also had issues with significant flight delays or cancellations on the way there or back.
2. Check in
3. Wait half an hour until boarding time. Discover plane has been delayed an hour. Le sigh. Thank the Elder Gods for free internet at Adelaide airport
4. Discover that plane has been further delayed for technical reasons
5. Wait total of three hours and find out that flight is cancelled. Door is broken. Concede that this is good reason not to get on plane.
6. Call hotline for new flight booking. Get told that because you booked through a travel agent, airline cannot alter booking. Think 'Now I'm screwed as I cannot contact government travel booking service unless I am actually at work'
7. Notice that colleague has managed to call hotline and is getting new flight booked despite this
8. Try hotline again. Talk to different person who rebooks flight.
9. Go home, for a total of 4.5 hours round trip going precisely nowhere.
10. Get taxi to airport. Get stuck in terrible, terrible traffic. When it seems it cannot possibly get any worse, get stopped at level crossing by train.
11. Arrive at airport 10 mins before boarding time.
12. Notice that check-in queue is very, very, very long. Join anyway.
13. Notice that most other people in check-in queue have boarding passes for your flight. Guy behind you says he was also stuck in traffic. Begin to feel somewhat safer.
14. Get to gate just in time to start boarding
15. Fly to Melbourne (yes, Melbourne)
16. Sit in Melbourne airport for 2 hours
17. Get on plane to Canberra
18. Arrive in Canberra at 3pm the day after you intended to get there, having missed a large (and important) chunk of the conference you were going to attend.
It must have been the week for it. Several other colleagues also had issues with significant flight delays or cancellations on the way there or back.
