A Story of epic failure : My adventure from Seattle to Honolulu. PART TWO
Part Two.
So Aaron and I ran out of the airplane as soon as the doors opened, and rushed to a seat near a power outlet.
After all, his laptop was almost dead, and my cell phone was low on batteries. So naturally, we had to charge it (if my cell phone dead, my parents would kill me) |D
We found an outlet, which turned out to only have one of the two plugs working. It was right nearby the NWA checkout desk (the ones that are at every gate).
We found another nearby (which also had only one plug working) so we used those two to charge out laptops and cell phones.
In order to pass the time (as our flight was not till 1130am) I watched some anime, and tried to sleep shortly after. Aaron got some food from Burger King, which was the only place open at the time. We ate that and tried to sleep. I positioned my belongings under me/put my feet on them so I can keep track of them, and tried to sleep on the chair with my legs extended, my luggage keeping my legs up straight. The Tvs were on CNN and were playing all through the night, so I watched some of that too, but when I tried to go to sleep it ended up being quite annoying to hear.
Luckily we took the blankets and pillows from the airplane because the gate was FREEZING. It's like they decided to turn off all the heating at night, so I soon switched to a fettle-like position and covered myself in the blanket, in hopes of retaining some warmth.
It didn't work -too- well, but it did enough to get me through the rest of the night.
Needless to say, I ended up waking at about 7:30am, and as I was gathering my belongings I overheard a lady talking with one of the NWA employees at the checkout desk. She asked the lady, 'Do you know the status of the flight going to Honolulu? It's supposed to leave today at 11:30am.' and the employee replies, 'Oh yea, that flight got cancelled.'
....
The lady went ballistic. XD
She started (semi)yelling at the employee saying things like, 'WHAT? And you didn't think of telling us this earlier? When did they find out it was cancelled?' in which the employee replied, 'Oh, earlier today.'
'...And when were you planning to tell us? You could have told us as soon as you found out, and we could have had time to find alternate flights to get on.'
etc. etc.
Eventually the employee told her to call a number (customer service) and so I went up there to get a number, too.
So we wait in a plane for over 4 hours, only for it to be delayed, spend the night at the airport then find out later that the flight got canceled. And now we have to call customer service to find another flight.
...And I thought the bus ride to the airport would be the hardest and most stressful thing about getting home.
So Aaron and I ran out of the airplane as soon as the doors opened, and rushed to a seat near a power outlet.
After all, his laptop was almost dead, and my cell phone was low on batteries. So naturally, we had to charge it (if my cell phone dead, my parents would kill me) |D
We found an outlet, which turned out to only have one of the two plugs working. It was right nearby the NWA checkout desk (the ones that are at every gate).
We found another nearby (which also had only one plug working) so we used those two to charge out laptops and cell phones.
In order to pass the time (as our flight was not till 1130am) I watched some anime, and tried to sleep shortly after. Aaron got some food from Burger King, which was the only place open at the time. We ate that and tried to sleep. I positioned my belongings under me/put my feet on them so I can keep track of them, and tried to sleep on the chair with my legs extended, my luggage keeping my legs up straight. The Tvs were on CNN and were playing all through the night, so I watched some of that too, but when I tried to go to sleep it ended up being quite annoying to hear.
Luckily we took the blankets and pillows from the airplane because the gate was FREEZING. It's like they decided to turn off all the heating at night, so I soon switched to a fettle-like position and covered myself in the blanket, in hopes of retaining some warmth.
It didn't work -too- well, but it did enough to get me through the rest of the night.
Needless to say, I ended up waking at about 7:30am, and as I was gathering my belongings I overheard a lady talking with one of the NWA employees at the checkout desk. She asked the lady, 'Do you know the status of the flight going to Honolulu? It's supposed to leave today at 11:30am.' and the employee replies, 'Oh yea, that flight got cancelled.'
....
The lady went ballistic. XD
She started (semi)yelling at the employee saying things like, 'WHAT? And you didn't think of telling us this earlier? When did they find out it was cancelled?' in which the employee replied, 'Oh, earlier today.'
'...And when were you planning to tell us? You could have told us as soon as you found out, and we could have had time to find alternate flights to get on.'
etc. etc.
Eventually the employee told her to call a number (customer service) and so I went up there to get a number, too.
So we wait in a plane for over 4 hours, only for it to be delayed, spend the night at the airport then find out later that the flight got canceled. And now we have to call customer service to find another flight.
...And I thought the bus ride to the airport would be the hardest and most stressful thing about getting home.