Who has a nightmarish airline incident to talk about here man? Here are some of mine in quantious travel trips to my country down south:
1. June 1994~ American Airlines I was ready to leave for a kick-ass vacation to my country and I packed a lot of stuff into one large suitcase, when I arrived at the airport it weighed 87 lbs. The chick at the counter said "You are 17 lbs overweight". I said "What the hell you're talking about girl, the limit is 140 lbs, I'm 60 lbs under". She says "No, you're overweight". I tell her to send a supervisor. This pot-bellied slob comes and tells me that I'm overweight, I then say "Okay I'll pay the overweight", he says "It comes to $520 u.s. dollars". I told him off and told him how could 17 lbs come out to $520 u.s. bucks and that we lived in Canada, it's supposed to be canadian loonies. After 35 minutes of arguing the stupid woman and the slob tell me: "Well what you can do is take some stuff out and shove them into this carboard box and that way you don't have to pay anything". I told them off and told them why they didn't opened their traps from the beginning and why they had tried to make me shell-out money before telling me that.
2. December 1995~ American AirlinesThe same story, they give me another cardboard box and I had a plane transfer in Miami, as I climbed on the second plane I sat directly above the loading ramp of the plane and could see all the suitcases being loaded up, I saw my cardboard box squashed and ripped apart, half the stuff had fallen out and were still falling. Several plastic watches that I had bought for $5 and $10 fell to the tarmac in Miami and the guy loading the box didn't bothered to pick them up-- even with me tapping the window and yelling at him.
3. Can't Remember the Date ~ TACA airlines A fatso sits besides me with his elbow resting on my chest from here to Miami. When I went to the washroom he made rude remarks about me getting up "every 10 minutes"-- I told him to fuck off and almost punched him out-- I asked the flight attendant to move him or move me. Halfway through the trip the hippopatumus falls asleep.
4. November 2000 ~ Continental Airlines I bought a $3,000 home stereo (full size) and didn't even opened the box, just wrote the destination on it and took it to the airport. The idiotic woman at the checking booth said that cardboard boxes were no longer allowed into the airplanes, I told her she was full of $hit, that I have never heard of the news before, she said "we make monthly briefings, you didn't hear them". I had to leave my stereo behind and spend Christmas with NO music in my country.
5. November 2001~ TACA airlines Plane leaves after 3:00pm from Pearson to Miami, the plane lands at night at about 7:00pm. I took another TACA plane and it took off from Miami over the Caribbean, about 1 hr 40 mins into the flight I noticed that the plane made a subtle 360-degree turn and was heading back to Miami. Islands that I saw pass under me an hour ago were visible again. I was the only one that noticed this. When we started to approach land and lights the people were saying "We are there". I told them we are NOT there, we are approaching Florida. Sneakingly the pilot came over the mike and said "Our flight navigation system malfunctioned, we are on backup, as soon as it gets fixed in Miami we will resume our flight". When they finally fixed the plane past midnight they told us that the pilots had gone to sleep at their hotel but another pilot was going to take us to Central America. Then when the dude arrived they told us that the airport at our destination closed after 1:00am due to bylaw rules so we had to stay until next morning.
1. June 1994~ American Airlines I was ready to leave for a kick-ass vacation to my country and I packed a lot of stuff into one large suitcase, when I arrived at the airport it weighed 87 lbs. The chick at the counter said "You are 17 lbs overweight". I said "What the hell you're talking about girl, the limit is 140 lbs, I'm 60 lbs under". She says "No, you're overweight". I tell her to send a supervisor. This pot-bellied slob comes and tells me that I'm overweight, I then say "Okay I'll pay the overweight", he says "It comes to $520 u.s. dollars". I told him off and told him how could 17 lbs come out to $520 u.s. bucks and that we lived in Canada, it's supposed to be canadian loonies. After 35 minutes of arguing the stupid woman and the slob tell me: "Well what you can do is take some stuff out and shove them into this carboard box and that way you don't have to pay anything". I told them off and told them why they didn't opened their traps from the beginning and why they had tried to make me shell-out money before telling me that.
2. December 1995~ American AirlinesThe same story, they give me another cardboard box and I had a plane transfer in Miami, as I climbed on the second plane I sat directly above the loading ramp of the plane and could see all the suitcases being loaded up, I saw my cardboard box squashed and ripped apart, half the stuff had fallen out and were still falling. Several plastic watches that I had bought for $5 and $10 fell to the tarmac in Miami and the guy loading the box didn't bothered to pick them up-- even with me tapping the window and yelling at him.
3. Can't Remember the Date ~ TACA airlines A fatso sits besides me with his elbow resting on my chest from here to Miami. When I went to the washroom he made rude remarks about me getting up "every 10 minutes"-- I told him to fuck off and almost punched him out-- I asked the flight attendant to move him or move me. Halfway through the trip the hippopatumus falls asleep.
4. November 2000 ~ Continental Airlines I bought a $3,000 home stereo (full size) and didn't even opened the box, just wrote the destination on it and took it to the airport. The idiotic woman at the checking booth said that cardboard boxes were no longer allowed into the airplanes, I told her she was full of $hit, that I have never heard of the news before, she said "we make monthly briefings, you didn't hear them". I had to leave my stereo behind and spend Christmas with NO music in my country.
5. November 2001~ TACA airlines Plane leaves after 3:00pm from Pearson to Miami, the plane lands at night at about 7:00pm. I took another TACA plane and it took off from Miami over the Caribbean, about 1 hr 40 mins into the flight I noticed that the plane made a subtle 360-degree turn and was heading back to Miami. Islands that I saw pass under me an hour ago were visible again. I was the only one that noticed this. When we started to approach land and lights the people were saying "We are there". I told them we are NOT there, we are approaching Florida. Sneakingly the pilot came over the mike and said "Our flight navigation system malfunctioned, we are on backup, as soon as it gets fixed in Miami we will resume our flight". When they finally fixed the plane past midnight they told us that the pilots had gone to sleep at their hotel but another pilot was going to take us to Central America. Then when the dude arrived they told us that the airport at our destination closed after 1:00am due to bylaw rules so we had to stay until next morning.
