I dropped my phone in my J seat coming back from LA once. The FA's were not pleased about having to pull the seat apart and made their dissatisfaction very obvious.Well I thought I had seen it all when a lady dropped her apartment keys down the gap at the foot of the lift door.
Now today a chap had his phone in his top pocket drop down the gap at the luggage scanner Qantas conveyor belt where there is no easy way of fishing it out. We weren’t sure if he would make his flight which was in about 40 minutes. You cannot get a hand or tongs down there so it looked like a job to disassemble the luggage scanner/loader.
I’ve done the same in reverse travelling from CBR in winter to Darwin! A frosty -7 when leaving home a o dark o’clock and then a sweaty 35 degrees and humid on landing in Darwin. No fun at all. I’m with the plane load of Taswegians cheering for the 13 degree weather on landing @StealthflyerLanded in HEL from Bangkok. Frozen wasteland. Catching connection to Düsseldorf.
Oh oh. Bus gate and in and I’m in my shirtsleeves alone from all the other passengers in the gate lounge most who are not only jacketed but most of them have beanies etc. Some in furs.
Onto the bus standing by the door to make sure I could be one of the first up the airplane stairs and not have to stand on the stairs in my shirt sleeves.
Freeze for about 10 minutes while everyone boarded the bus with me standing by the open door.
Travel mistake of course was not to bring my jumper on the flight from Bangkok anticipating what was at the other end.
I have nightmares about doing this sort of thing!Well I thought I had seen it all when a lady dropped her apartment keys down the gap at the foot of the lift door.
Now today a chap had his phone in his top pocket drop down the gap at the luggage scanner Qantas conveyor belt where there is no easy way of fishing it out. We weren’t sure if he would make his flight which was in about 40 minutes. You cannot get a hand or tongs down there so it looked like a job to disassemble the luggage scanner/loader.
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Once when travelling home from Darwin to Canberra for a government client that insisted on doing all travel bookings for contractors, they were supposed to book me on the red eye that departed at 0045 Saturday morning but instead booked me on the 1245 Saturday arvo. It mattered because I had a kid thing to go to on the Saturday morning. They repeatedly told me I was booked on the morning flight. I was only emailed my ticket a couple of hours before the flight (arghhh - after I had waited for hours after finishing work at 1600, with no room t9 go to). I went to the airport anyway, hoping to get the flight, but no chance. Went back to my hotel about 0130 and begged for a room. Got it, but they wouldn’t give me a late check out, so had to get out again by 1000. And insult to injury, when I claimed for the additional night accommodation, a different area of that department told me they wouldn’t reimburse as it was my choice to stay, when I could have caught the 0045 home .My travel booker once booked me into a hotel in a city at the same time I was booked to fly from the same city. Luckily I noticed before I left home.
I am sure many of use have stories about travel glitches. The interesting bit is when you found out and could do something about it?
Totally agree except for the first. I have no choice when on business but then it is in-house so easy fix. I'm sometimes looking over their shoulder when bookings made.Once when travelling home from Darwin to Canberra for a government client that insisted on doing all travel bookings for contractors, they were supposed to book me on the red eye that departed at 0045 Saturday morning but instead booked me on the 1245 Saturday arvo. It mattered because I had a kid thing to go to on the Saturday morning. They repeatedly told me I was booked on the morning flight. I was only emailed my ticket a couple of hours before the flight (arghhh - after I had waited for hours after finishing work at 1600, with no room t9 go to). I went to the airport anyway, hoping to get the flight, but no chance. Went back to my hotel about 0130 and begged for a room. Got it, but they wouldn’t give me a late check out, so had to get out again by 1000. And insult to injury, when I claimed for the additional night accommodation, a different area of that department told me they wouldn’t reimburse as it was my choice to stay, when I could have caught the 0045 home .
From this I learnt:
- never, ever, ever let anyone else book my travel - they just don’t care
- never accept work that clashes with kid commitments
- never, ever, ever take a red eye anywhere (I knew this from a previous PER-CBR for a different kid thing - but call me a slow learner)
They’re supposed to do mixed class redemptions (KF), otherwise you wouldn’t be able to combine F with 3/4 of asia!I booked first class on Singapore Airlines website from SYD-SIN and wanted to add a stopover to Penang since they don't do mixed class bookings(redemption). I also had to manually call up to add the 2 infants and pay the 10% of the adult fare which wasn't a problem. I left it a few days to add the stopover because I am busy with 2 infants and the Mrs decided to choose Penang instead of Bangkok. Getting the stopover flight added on was a pain. I had to pay a change fee and the taxes which was fine. No one knew how to process the infants but to their credit they called back in 24 hours and rectified.
Lesson learnt and that is to book it all in one go.
Would be completely stuffed if it happened in China!I have nightmares about doing this sort of thing!
Yes but you have to call up and its very a painful process if you don't book it in one go.They’re supposed to do mixed class redemptions (KF), otherwise you wouldn’t be able to combine F with 3/4 of asia!