irrational fear of flying

[vertical_doug]

After having a number of snafus with American in the Caribbean trying to get back to Miami to London this weekend (took 2 days with pain) in order to make a late meeting today, and one tomorrow, British Air is now hit with a major IT event. I am scheduled to leave tmrw for Las Vegas.

It feels like we are cascading to the Die Hard 4 'Fire Sale' one of these days. Ho ho ho...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...assengers.html

I haven't even started my American complaint letter, and now this. I can't complain fast enough.

[Tom]

When we came back from Italy on American Airlines we flew from Naples. There was some sort of an issue there and I think it was local. The staff ended up checking everybody's bags in manually and hand writing all the luggage tags. Took forever - we stood in lines for about five hours but I was pleasantly surprised when our luggage arrived at our destination when we did. I think I prefer them not giving me any information and letting me kind of settle into endurance mode instead of giving me a time that I obsessively watch creeping closer slower and slower. I'm not a very social person but we had a good time yakking with our fellow sufferers.

[72gmc]

When we came back from Italy on American Airlines we flew from Naples. There was some sort of an issue there and I think it was local. The staff ended up checking everybody's bags in manually and hand writing all the luggage tags. Took forever - we stood in lines for about five hours but I was pleasantly surprised when our luggage arrived at our destination when we did. I think I prefer them not giving me any information and letting me kind of settle into endurance mode instead of giving me a time that I obsessively watch creeping closer slower and slower. I'm not a very social person but we had a good time yakking with our fellow sufferers.

SeaTac's international flights were recently hobbled by a "computer issue" that led to the same solution, hand-written tags and manual check-in. We were glad we'd arrived 3 hours early.

[Dave Thompson]

So we’re coming home from Spain today with a plane change in Madrid. I think Madrid competes directly with the Charles de Gaulle airport for the longest terminals but with a new wrinkle. The overhead signs in Madrid direct you to the terminal you want: D, C, B, and A but offer an addendum underneath each terminal sign with how many minutes it will take you at a FAST walk to get there. The terminal sign for ours stated A, 36 minutes. And this was the start of our day!