I'm trying to head back to Florida from Ohio, where I've spent the last couple of days.
Tonight our 10:07pm flight kept getting pushed back. Eventually, though, we boarded.
And then we waited, and waited, and waited.
Then they told us to "deplane" (how I hate that stupid word; correct is disembark). This was for our comfort, they said. The flight was not canceled.
And those, dear reader, are the magic words.
"The flight has not been canceled."
That's when you know it's all over.
So now I'm at a hotel waiting for my rescheduled flight tomorrow morning.
By the time you get this, I'll be in the air -- assuming disaster hasn't struck twice.
The explanation we got, by the way, was very strange: they were having a hard time reaching maintenance. They don't have an easy way to contact their own maintenance people?
If it was a matter of people not coming in to work, couldn't they have offered $2000 to some plucky worker to come in and resolve the situation -- so they wouldn't have to give 150 passengers each a $150 voucher?
Honestly I don't get what's going on in labor markets these days.
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