... A catering truck hitting an aircraft? Honestly! The driver should be given right-royal dressing down - I might be very tired at the moment and struggling to keep awake, but I'm alert enough to know that that is just plain stupid. :evil: :evil: :evil:
Happened to me about 7 years ago.
Back then it was 10 SC MEL/BNE or MEL/SYD so I'd always booked two end on end returns MEL-SYD and SYD-BNE.
Anyway, one eveing in BNE there was an announcement that my 5:30 SYD flight was delayed 45 minutes (due to SYD ATC needs) and for PAX to approach the desk. Normally I would stick with the booked flight, but I needed to link with the 9:00pm SYD-MEL International flight on a separate booking. So I approached the desk and was put on the 5:45 flight, 737 in an aisle seat around row 22.
I boarded and was seated - then the announcement that a catering truck had hit the aircraft and it was not going anywhere and for PAX to recheck at the service desk.
Well there was 100 PAX in front of me and by the time I got to the desk, all that was available was the 7:00pm flight. (FWIW, my original flight left only 15 minutes late - utilizing the slot vacated by the flight I had moved to).
I handed over printed copies of both my e-tickets and at my request was happily was rebooked on the last direct flight BNE-MEL that evening.
(BNE-SYD availability was by then nuked, they were happy to do so.)
Of course, back then, ODU's were available from any revenue class, so I burnt some point and travelled back in Style!
Airport apron type incidents are actually reasonably frequent. At least the good thing is that with the work culture and rules forcing any incident to be alerted to other staff, people don't end up flying in a plane with a crack in the side...
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