Grr

[la_marquise]

So the marquis' return journey depended on a tight change of planes in Washington, which Those Who Booked It assured him would be fine, no problem, perfectly do-able.
He had to run to make it on the outbound journey, which allowed more time, because of the whole immigration thing.
The return journey... Oh, no. His first flight can't possibly take off on time, or even near on time. Leaving him with no onward flight. The airline are rearranging something for him (it's their fault, so they had better do this properly, or they will be getting a Brisk Letter from me). But come what may, instead of being home by lunchtime tomorrow, it will be practically midnight at the earliest. Plus, I suspect, a great deal of hanging about in empty, largely closed airports.
Colour both of us highly unamused.

Shoulders are a lot better today, and I pushed on with the rewrites. I guess I'll get a lot more of them done tomorrow, too.
Skirt of the day: black pinstripe wrap.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

That infuriates me, when airlines book you to essentially be abandoned in the airport. I hope the airline at least gives him a hotel room if he's stuck somewhere for a while.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, he has to organise his own room, because it's weather, and that lets them off.
His employer will probably refund him for it, but all the same, the very tightness of the connection to begin with was not at all good.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

We got caught out by the 'weather' thing last year on the way to Nova Scotia and ended up with an unplanned overnight in Philadelphia without benefit of baggage when they cancelled the last leg of the flight due to a storm in Halifax. Our friends who live there asked 'What storm?'

Yeah, right.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

At least they apparently have planes this time. Last year, he and I went through the whole, 'flight cancelled because we don't have enough planes' thing.