Posted - July 10, 2008, 5:53 p.m.
There never seems to be any good news about the airline industry. Today's RedEye cover story looks at flightmares: delays, cancellations and lost luggage are turning airports into despairports.
I don't have many, but here are some of my flightmare stories:
>> On one flight as a kid my family booked two coach tickets and one first-class seat. We each rotated into the first-class seat. Eventually, all that excitement of a first-class fare must have gone to my head because I threw up in first-class. Or maybe it was my brother. I just remember the puke. I haven't really flown first-class since.
>> I got to the airport pretty early for a Chicago-to-New York flight two summers ago but they gave away my seat. As it was, I was narrowly going to make it back to New York in time for work at the Daily News. I had to take a later flight to Newark and take the PATH to get into the city. I had to stave off my editor, and I ended up doing a lot of man on the street interviews that day.
What are some of your flightmares?
1 Comment
Joe Allen-Black said:
When I was 15 a terrible movie named "Meet Joe Black" came out in theaters. During the week it came out, I was flying down to visit my dad. Because I'm clutsy, somewhere in the Atlanta airport on a layover I lost my ID and my ticket ... or something like that (I mostly remember not having any identifiable on me). When I went to booth to ask what to do, the lady didn't believe my name (Joe Black) and kept calling me a liar. She didn't want to give me a ticket. In the middle of the airport I started crying and curling up in a ball on the floor, until another attendent saw my name/age on a manifest. She gave me free food vouchers and a free phone card to make up for it.
TRACY'S REPLY: It's good thing you're name is now Joe Allen-Black. People won't be calling you "Joe Black," "Joe Black," "Joe Black" anymore.
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