Second verse, same as the first?<\/p>\n
Well, not exactly, but close enough.\u00a0 I’ve decided that Houston doesn’t like me.\u00a0 Yesterday, I had another client in Houston that I had to fly out to meet with.\u00a0 I scheduled the same flights as before so that I could do all of my travel in one day.\u00a0 Last time, if you recall, my flight was stranded mid-air and we were diverted to Austin and I missed my meeting and flew straight home as soon as I finally landed in Houston.\u00a0 This experience wasn’t quite that bad, but it wasn’t good either.<\/p>\n
The flight from Vegas to Houston was uneventful and we even arrived a little early.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 I was able to meet up with my co-worker and we got to the meeting and the meeting went well.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 Afterward, got to have Chick-Fil-A to eat.\u00a0 AWESOME!!! Highlight of the day!\u00a0 Got to the airport to fly home… and this is where the story unravels once again.<\/p>\n
My plane was supposed to leave around 6:44 pm CDT and arrive in Vegas at 7:52 PDT.\u00a0 I would have gotten home before 9:00 easily and still had some time to relax before bed.\u00a0 Around 6:30, we hadn’t boarded yet and they finally changed the departure time from 6:44 to 7:16.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a big deal, that happens.\u00a0 We board the plane and after everyone is on and they’ve closed the door, we get an announcement.\u00a0 “Thank you for flying with us, we’ll be at the gate here for 30 minutes or so.”\u00a0 Upsetting but whatever.\u00a0 30 minutes pass by and the voice comes over, (using valley girl paraphrasing from our captain) “Umm, yeah, like there are 4 planes behind us blocking us in so, like, we’ll be another 30 minutes here.\u00a0 Y’all can use your cell phones if you want to call anyone… oh and by the way, once we pull from the gate, we’ll taxi for about another hour before we take off, there were like, awesome storms that came through.\u00a0 Totally cool, huh?”<\/p>\n
About 45 minutes later we push from the gate and get the message (no paraphrasing). “Greetings from the flight deck, we’ve pushed from the gate.\u00a0 You can probably feel us moving now.\u00a0 It’ll still be about an hour before we take off as there are a lot of flights ahead of us due to the storm that passed by.”\u00a0 That’s great, come on the speaker just AFTER we start moving to tell us we’re moving.\u00a0 Our captain was a real winner, I think she liked the sound of her voice on the PA.<\/p>\n
Now we’re on taxi and again the captain comes online and says, “If you’re on the left side of the plane you can probably see the really long line of planes we’re behind and that magnificent storm in the distance.”\u00a0 I don’t care.\u00a0 We’re on the taxi with the engines off, it doesn’t really matter how many planes are ahead of us.<\/p>\n
30 minutes later, still on the taxi, the captain graces us with her presence again, “I’ve been asked to move the plane up so I’m going to start the engines and move.”\u00a0 Did we really need to hear that?\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 Around this time, almost 2 hours of sitting on the plane, they come around and offer a glass of water.\u00a0 Great customer service.\u00a0 Couldn’t they have at least run some programming on the TV’s during this wait; or even better not board the darn plane until we could have pushed away.\u00a0 Continental’s customer service leaves much to be desired from my last two experiences.\u00a0 It’s one thing to have delays, but the way the staff handles them could make things much more bearable.\u00a0 Continental gets a D for service.<\/p>\n
40 minutes later we’re taking off and I seriously hear clapping behind me.\u00a0 What the ??? You’re clapping because we’re taking off 2 and a half hours late?\u00a0 What an accomplishment!\u00a0 As we’re just getting airborne, the flight attendant comes on and says, “Thanks for handling the short<\/strong> delay, we appreciate your business.”\u00a0 Short delay, as if to say it could have been worse; which yes, it could have, but don’t try to placate me by pointing that out.\u00a0 We took off around the time I should have been landing in Vegas.<\/p>\n The flight was uneventful from that point and I got home around 11:00.\u00a0 Missed the entire Celtics game and any reasonable time with Kylah before bed.\u00a0 Houston just doesn’t like me apparently.<\/p>\n I’m sure that when the time comes to fly again to Houston, I’ll be able to complete a saga.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n
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