F*** Delta & F*** Flying

[nate]

I already hate flying and this trip is the worst yet.

 

Had a red eye for myself my wife and my daughter leaving LAX at 1 AM and arriving in Milwaukee at 8:15AM with a 1 hour layover in Minneapolis.  We have a meeting at 12PM in Milwaukee so we had to go with the red eye because of obligations we had today.

 

At 7:30 I got a notification that my flight from LAX is delayed until 2:20 which of course means I will miss my connecting flight to WI.  After nearly an hour on hold the best they can do for me is get me in Milwaukee at 11:40AM with a three hour layover in Minneapolis.  On top of that they cannot put us together on the flight so we are all three in different rows.  After another half hour on hold waiting for a supervisor I finally got them to put my wife and daughter together.  My daughter is 5, she can't sit on her own.

 

I told them we are going to be late for the meeting and since it is in Milwaukee it is too late to call and we will be on a plane the entire morning so we can't even reliably contact the people we are meeting to tell them we will be late.  They won't even refund bag fees or anything.

 

It is amazing that these airlines are still in business.  I have never paid thousands of dollars for something and gotten such pathetic service like I do every time I fly.  I told them we are going to be late for the meeting and since it is in Milwaukee it is too late to call and we will be on a plane the entire morning so we can't even reliably contact the people we are meeting to tell them we will be late.  They won't even refund bag fees or anything.

 

/end rant

[NJHalo]

Great timing! I just booked a flight on Delta to Charleston, SC.

I never fly Delta because they don't fly much out of Newark.

[gotbeer]

I've learned that unless you can prevent it, having a connecting flight sucks.  I was suck in Philladelphia for 8 hours once because of weather.  It was sunny and 70 degrees in Philly.  But there was a storm in Viginia that grounded all the planes.  I needed to go to Vermont, but since that particular plane was coming from Virginia, I was delayed instead of finding a plane that was stuck in Philly because it couldn't go to Virginia.  

 

While I hate Herdwest, they have a direct flight to Milwaulkee.  I would have taken that one.

[ScottT]

Flying blows (less so if some random person in your aisle is buying drinks), but driving is worse, and going places is fun.  

[Tank]

Next time try Midwest Express. I think Milwaukee is one of their hubs.

All seats are first class and thy bake chocolate chip cookies mid-flight. By far our favorite airline.

[nate]

Update: it is 2:47 and the plane just landed at LAX. They "hope" we can board by 4am. That gives an hour to catch our next flight. Ugh.

[arch stanton]

It's a good thing they were able to form all those mergers and eliminate competition or you might have had some options. Nothing pisses off a corporate overlord like a revenue source...I mean "customer" with options.

[GuliblGuy]

I was suck in Philladelphia for 8 hours once

Were you there with sneaky flute?

[katie]

I had a 1 hour layover in Vegas a few weeks ago on the way to Buffalo, but the plane in SD ended up leaving an hour late because they counted 140 people on the plane and 141 people had checked in. It took them an hour to figure out that they had someone volunteer up their seat when they announced that the plane was overbooked. I barely got my connector because we made it in 55 mins instead of 75

[St1ck]

Delta Delta Delta, Can I help ya help ya help ya

[Vegas Halo Fan]

One reason I mainly stick with Southwest when I fly domestic. They have nonstops to virtually everywhere from Las Vegas, including my home town of Jacksonville. No baggage fees, no "gotcha" at the curb. There are drawbacks to be sure, but I avoid a lot of aggravation and a lot of hidden costs.

[GuliblGuy]

[katie]

Delta's corporate offices are in ATL too...

[Chimi]

Next time try Midwest Express. I think Milwaukee is one of their hubs.

All seats are first class and thy bake chocolate chip cookies mid-flight. By far our favorite airline.

 

Midwest Express is no longer around.  They were absorbed into Frontier and Frontier decided to stop with the cookies to save money.

[Tank]

Midwest Express is no longer around.  They were absorbed into Frontier and Frontier decided to stop with the cookies to save money.

Stupid communists.

[nate]

I still haven't slept. I am starting to hallucinate. Lol.

[Tank]

Did you make it to your meeting?

[St1ck]

Did you make it to your meeting?

Tank asking the questions no one else cared to.

[nate]

Did you make it to your meeting?

 

Yeah, got it rescheduled to 3:30.

 

Finally going to bed at 9:30... woohoo!

 

To make things worse, a huge ass thunderstorm came through right when we got in the rental car.  Drove out here with almost no visibility from the heavy rain/wind.  Lots of lightning though, that was cool.

[mtangelsfan]

Welcome to the Midwest.

 

Weather is crappy in the for 3 seasons and dangerous in the 4th.

[nate]

Just noticed I some how copy and pasted the line about the meeting twice... weird.

[nate]

Also, there were a lot of Angels fans on the flight.  They missed their connecting flight to Chicago and had to take a later flight.

[Bruce Nye]

Ho' lotta hateration in this thread.

[arch stanton]

Airlines are an excellent source of hateration. 100% of daily requirement.