The following posts were written and collected from Wednesday through Monday while I was in or traveling to NYC. Despite the Emerald City’s massive wireless state, I was very mobile and unable to access the internet stably enough to post. That’s on me, but it doesn’t mean I stopped writing… Here is Wednesday:
I debated about talking about my trip. The internet is pretty clear about not announcing you’ve left your place of residence for fear of being robbed. Fortunately, I left folks behind to tend to that, so I can talk about this: US Air is the worst airline on the planet. I’m saying this knowing that Malaysia air lost multiple planes over the course of a single year. They are still better than US Air.
The airline in questions is a cheaper solution to flying across the country. Whenever possible I use Southwest. I occasionally fly with Allegiant, but in so far as customer service and flight readiness goes, Southwest is king, and usually cheap, but not when it comes to flying to New York. I started my journey at 8:20 in the morning, preparing to board for a 8:58 flight that was scheduled to land at 4:54 Eastern time. The flight was cancelled. The airline claimed a runway at JFK had been shut down and as a result our little plane wouldn’t be able to land at JFK 5 hrs later. It was a half truth. Indeed the runway was being maintained, but there were other options the airline could’ve applied.
Here’s what they tried to do: Push everyone to a flight to Ohio that was leaving 6 hrs after our original time and from there wait six more hours in Ohio for a flight that would arrive in the city at 7 the next morning. I opted for the faster and equally circuitous route to charlotte and into Newark.
The result is 13 hrs of travel and a very worn out talislegger. More talks from the road will follow.