Worst flight experience?

[Kaizer Sosay]

Back in 2000 I was flying with my girlfriend from Chicago, where we lived together, to NY to go to her sister's wedding at their parents' home on Long Island. Well the airline told me my carry-on bag was too big so they made me check it. Then they proceeded to lose it. The big problem was that I was going to propose to my girlfriend on this trip...and the engagement ring was in that bag that the airline lost!!!

So while I am freaking out about the lost ring I also have to borrow clothes from her dad and her brother for the weekend. Then I accidentally set her parents back yard on fire and burnt the home-made alter to the ground that her sister was going to use for the wedding. I also flushed a toilet that was broken and it backed up their septic system which proceeded to flood their back yard...which is where the wedding was being held the next day. Oh yeah, I also lost their family cat...then tried to replace it with another similar cat I found at the shelter which proceeded to tear up their house and ruin my future sister-in-law's wedding dress. As if that wasn't enough, later that day I got a little too competitive during a game of pool volley ball and wound up breaking my future sister-in-law's nose. Finally though the airline found my bag and delivered it to the house. But noooooo...it turned out to be the wrong bag which just happened to be filled with sex toys and my future father-in-law was the first one to open it.

So they kicked me out of their home.

So I start to board the return flight to Chicago...by myself...and my carry-on bag won't fit in the over head storage. But I keep trying to stuff it in there. So then some stuck up airline stewardess with sticks in her hair starts giving me hard time and says I will have to check the bag. NO WAY! They lost my bag once...I'll be damned if they are going to lose it again. So I get in a fight with that ***** of a stewardess and they wind up kicking me off the plane. Then I get interrogated by the authorities and eventually they release me. But only after my future FIL bails me out of the situation.

Story ends well though. My girlfriend eventually said yes and we have been happily married ever since.

Next time I'll tell you about the trip my fiancé and I took to my parent's house in Florida. It was even worse.

 

[Spanish Radio]

Headed on vacation to London with stop over in Minneapolis. Storm hits. Plane delayed 2 hours. Finally get on plane. Miss Connection to London. Spend night in Minneapolis as there are no more planes to London and no good routes. Get to Airport next morning Airline sends us to Amsterdam to get connection to London due to no morning London flights being available. 12 hours behind schedule. Get to Amsterdam, airplane has a problem and is canceled before we even board. Airline hunts for plane 2-3 hours. Finds old 727 which we have to take a 15-20 van trip to get too. Get on plane and take off. Landing gear won't retract. Van trip back to airport. Sit around Amsterdam airport for 3-4 hours. Get on plane and get sent to Gatwick instead of Heathrow. Since it is late there are no express trains running to the area of London we are staying in so the train stops at every stop. Nearly 24 hours later we arrive at hotel. Missed the concert my girl had bought tickets for my birthday and still had to pay for the night we didn't stay in the hotel. Bags show up the next day. The airline said we're sorry.

 

[rmattox]

Flew to Portland, Maine in October after the Sept 11 attack. Since the Portland airport played a big role in the events of that day, I was a little anxious about that airport. On the way back, after making it past what seemed to have been fifty guards carrying rifles, we made it to the waiting area. While waiting to board, I noticed 4 very "arab" looking guys sitting near me; almost stereotypical arabs. I'm thinking one of those guys has to be wearing a bomb....but no worry because they are checking selected people/pulling them out of line and wanding them. I know they'll get these guys.

So they call my flight. The four Arabs are in line in front of me.....I'm thinking they'll pull them out of line. They don't. Instead, they pull me out of line. Make me spread-eagle and "wand" me. A short, bald, white guy and I'm thinking they just let four terrorists on the plane.

 

[JDHoss]

I was 18 and working away from home. Called the Huntington WV airport and booked a flight to Grand Rapids Minnesota. Needless to say I landed in Grand Rapids Michigan. I should've paid more attention but was young and new to flying. I remember getting off the airplane and saw a sign that said Welcome to Michigan Gerald Ford Airport. My stomach dropped.

*Sat through an 11 hour delay in Grand Rapids once, back before WiFi or smartphones to entertain you. Fourteen (coworker had an earlier flight to another destination so we got there in time for him to leave and turned the rental car in) hours in an airport that had maybe two places to eat, a bookstore, and one or two other shops makes for a long *** day.

*Flying from CATL (Catlanta) to Sacramento in early May, our pilot announced we were going to take a detour and fly around a bad line of supercell thunderstorms over North Texas. Glad we didn't go through them because going around them was ****ing terrifying enough with several *** clenching moments.

*Circled CATL once for nearly 45 minutes, wound up getting to my Tri Cities connection 5 minutes after they shut the door, and the SOB's wouldn't let me on. I knew a guy who was on that flight, and he told me a couple of days later that they sat on the tarmac for 90 minutes. I wound up spending the night in a crappy Comfort Inn by the airport, courtesy of Delta, checking in at 1:00 AM and discovering that the toilet in my room had a broken fill valve and the water wouldn't stop running. After the front desk told me the hotel was full and that there was no maintenance available, I shut the water off and finally got to sleep at about 2:00, having to get back up at 5:00 to catch the next flight to Tri Cities at 8:00. Should've just stayed at the airport.

*White knuckle landing once in Tampa during bad weather. The pilot apologized to everyone as they were leaving for the "bad" landing, but I told him that there's no such thing as a bad landing when we're all walking off the plane.

 

[TheySoSensitive]

Flying on SWA last Sept with wife and kids returning from vacation. And only seats left were in the back middle seats. So no seats together. No one offered to move, so my (just turned) 8 yr-old had to sit by himself.

I can't believe those people didn't inconvenience themselves to accommodate your child. [eyeroll]

The entitlement of some people...shew wee.

 

[liveblue92]

On my way home from Korea, I traveled/was delayed/flew for 36 straight hours. Went across the peninsula to Osan AFB, to Tokyo, to Seattle, to Atlanta, to Nashville. Went back in time 13 hours. Parents picked me up there and drove me home where I proceeded to go into a coma for 15 hours.