Jul21

unscathed.

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on the morning of the onset of the recent global outages

my sister was scheduled to fly in for a visit

as soon as i heard about it

i warned her that her flights might get complicated

but somehow she managed to get on two scheduled flights

fly across the country and land within 15 minutes of her original arrival time

 

 we found her suitcase in a baggage claim area that was mostly shut down

with luggage on a carousel but no people from the corresponding flights to claim them

 a line that grew longer with each incoming flight filing lost luggage claims

 surrounded by people left and right with cancelled flights

she somehow managed to get through the eye of the needle unscathed

how lucky is that?

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  12. Hooray for smooth travels! My daughter and her boyfriend flew in to visit and missed the problems by hours. So glad, it was their first time travelling together and the first time I’ve seen them for a while!

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  14. My son and his girlfriend were due to fly into Pittsburgh the day of the outage. They weren’t as lucky as your sister. Their flight got rescheduled to fly out on Friday. Just glad they got home.

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  27. We had one of our worst travel experiences today, though I don’t know how much of it had to do with Friday’s events. It started so smoothly and ended up with a 45-minute delay to pull off two bags after the plane was loaded in Salt Lake City, continuing with another 20 minute delay when they couldn’t get the jet bridge to work in Minneapolis. We raced to the gate and missed by less than five minutes. The next flight to a regional airport wouldn’t have happened for another 7 hours, though we think our bags were on the first flight. We then rode a bus three hours to the airport we were supposed to fly into to pick up our rental car. No one from the airlines was still working, so we have no luggage. Hopefully, we got all the bad stuff out of the way on day 1.

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    • so sorry, that sounds like a travel nightmare. it is highly likely it was connected to what has happened, as I read yesterday, that many things were still offline, 1,200 flights were cancelled, and the computer fixes will not be easy. sounds like it may take a while for all to be smooth again, but at least it should be ‘better’ on your way back.

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