Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Reason I Was Late With my Top 10

 I mention that there was a reason behind it, so I figured I would tell you. Well lets start off by saying that I was flying on a small airline company called Great Lakes, they fly out of Pueblo to Denver and some other various places. Well as convenient as it was to fly through them, it wasn't all peaches and cream so to say. So anyways I fly to Denver through them, first off they were 20 mins late and I still had to make a connecting flight. Anywhoo I hop on the plane and they take me to Denver. I have 10 mins to make it to my other gate which happens to be all the way across the DIA (Denver International Airport for those who don't know). I land in gate A55 and have to make it to gate A24 in less than 10 mins. Now anyone who has been to DIA before knows that is no easy feat. So I get there on time (luckily) and they tell me "Oh your plane is has been switched to gate A46."

Oh joy all the way back across the A-section of the fucking airport. So I run back there (luckily they were running a bit late themselves. I should mention they oversold the flight, so if I didn't make it on time they would give my ticket to someone else. Well thankfully I make it and they are still boarding. Well don't worry kids, the fun doesn't end there.

I finally arrive in Phoenix (I actually had a good flight) , and my sister is there to greet me etc etc. I am waiting at the baggage claim, when I notice.....everyone has already come and gone off my flight. Where the fuck is my bag? I go up to the frontier airlines (who were the people in charge of the second half of my flight) desk and ask if all the bags have arrived yet. She looks it up and then goes and checks the bag carousal and comes back and says yes. So where is my bag exactly? She says "Ugh, you flew Great Lakes.... that explains it" " They always lose luggage." My PS2 and PS3 are in that bag among my clothes and laptop and all my chargers (phone, DS, PSP etc etc). So here I am with practically nothing, and she says my stuff should be delivered to my house within several days. You've gotta be shitting me.

So the night I posted my top 10 is the day I got my crap back (earlier that evening). There you have it. Fucking bullshit if you ask me.... how the hell did my back end up in Salt Lake City....

7 comments:

Onion said...

Aha. The part about the lost baggage explains quite a lot.

spornax said...

I don't think it is proper management to have lost backs be a "norm". I'd be pretty fucking pissed if that happened and I won't get off anyone's face until I get my damn luggage.

Onion said...

I'm sure it isn't the "norm." The woman working there probably just sees it happen a lot. Maybe she was a newbie. I've gone to Florida on a plane twice in my life and both times they lost some of our luggage. The first time, they weren't even able to find my Mother's bag, so they had her make a list of what was in it and they reimbursed her.

spornax said...

I can't understand where you're coming from Onion. New employees aren't supposed to make those kinds of comments; they're trained NOT to because it is not professional.

>_>" Geez onion...

Onion said...

Well, sporn, I'm just coming from my personal experience. And since I have never been an employee at an airline, I couldn't have known these things. It just sounded like some kind of screwup that I'd do.

spornax said...

If you ever get a chance to go inside luggage terminals, look for a camera on your top left at the "L" shaped corner to the conveyor belt room. Most airports have the same outline.

That camera only points to the edge of the opposite side of the letter, and it turns 45 degrees max just shy of the door for the belt room and the entrance.

If someone carrying an item out of the luggage room walked under that camera, you can bet that luggage will be gone for good.

atvrcr said...

Well I think why it may be the norm is because great lakes is a very small airlines. Their planes are basically 12 seat personal jets.

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