Freakin' Airport Delays

[clement]

I really hate airport delays. Last week I was delayed in London because the flight crew was caught in traffic and late getting to the airport. I'm thinking, 'How is it that all these people made it to the airport on time, but the flight crew couldn't?'

And now I'm stuck in the Abu Dhabi airport, it's 2:30am. My flight was supposed to leave 90 minutes ago, and we're still an hour from departing. The reason? Because a flight from Manila to Singapore that was late had passengers going to Jeddah. So they hold the connecting flight for those people from Manila, so that the flight from Singapore to Abu Dhabi is delayed... the flight from Abu Dhabi to Jeddah is delayed... the flight back from Jeddah to Abu Dhabi is delayed... and finally the flight from Abu Dhabi back to Singapore is delayed.

In what world does it make sense to delay 4 flights by 2.5 hours just because a few passengers were going to miss their connection????? I'm tired!!

[cardinalkarp]

I hate airlines for that very reason. You know the one time that you would need them to hold a flight they would be gone like the wind.

edit : actually that's just one reason why I hate airlines, there's to many to list

[cardsfansince82]

On my way back to Vegas last week we made extremely good time (extra wind? I don't know) and landed almost an hour early. But the gate we were assigned to still had a plane in it because we were so early. The solution? Sit on the runway for an hour until the gate opened up. I've been delayed before and whatnot but this made me angrier than ever before. We get here early but all of that time is wasted sitting there until we were able to use that particular gate. There wasn't another one available?

[cardinalkarp]

Being stuck on the airplane is 100x worse than being stuck in the terminal.