Thrust From United States, joined Sep 2003, 2428 posts, RR: 24 Posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1655 times:
I'm sure we all go through this at one point in time or another. I'll go first. I have missed a plane only once, but when I did, it was annoying. We were supposed to catch an AA flight TPA-STL. We were late by an hour due to traffic on I-75. So we stayed in a hotel overnight and had to stand by when we found out the next day that all TPA-STL direct flights were full. So we waited ANOTHER day. Then we finally compromised and did TPA-DFW-STL. The length of time it took was 5 hours, the length of a BOS-LHR nonstop. TPA-STL nonstop is half that time. How many flights have u missed? Share your experience with the "class"
Espion007 From Denmark, joined Dec 2003, 1691 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1624 times:
The only flight i missed was last thanksgiving. The whole east coast was delayed, including my flight from IAD to JFK by 2 hours. I missed my connection to Nice and i was pretty pissed too.Ended up spending 24 more hours than i wanted to in JFK. Good thing we didnt book a room at the holiday inn-woke up to a strike a few blocks from our room.
Aa777jr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1611 times:
I have missed three flights. All were overseas flights. The first I missed was suppose to be my first 777 experience, ORD-LHR. I missed it. I got it worked out and was on STL-LGW instead, 763. The second flight I missed was also a 777 flight, ORD-LHR. I changed my plans, and ended up flying ORD-MAN, 763, and took a train into London. Bummers again. My last flight was a AF flight from CDG-LIS. We missed check in and got bummed to their afternoon flight. My dad was compensated well over $700 total for that.
Received 150 euro for each ticket, or 300 euro of vouchers on AF for each ticket. We took the cash. Also received a 100 euro voucher for the restaurant in CDG. Very enjoyable French cuisine!
Hope I don't miss anymore flights in the future do to my own stupidity.
707CMF From France, joined Mar 2002, 4885 posts, RR: 50 Reply 4, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1608 times:
Missed two flights up till now.
a FCO-LYS in 2002 on AF - arrived 5 minutes before take off, as a fool paying customer, I was put in the next flight : i.e. next morning at 6 am, and my company offered me another night at the hotel (and I could see some part of Rome by night).
MIA-SDQ, that same year on AA. Had done AA63 CDG-MIA just before, and the flight was two hours late. We merely saw our MIA-SDQ push back, and had to wait an additionnal 3 hours at MIA. Oh well, not that bad.
Levent From Austria, joined Sep 2004, 1693 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1601 times:
Missed a flight once. I was travelling on operations duty from Holland to Spain and took the train to Amsterdam Schiphol. Suddenly the train stopped in the middle of nowhere. Apparently there was a major problem further down on the track. We stood there for an hour or so until finally we returned to the previous station (and all other trains on that route, which is the busiest of Holland...). There was a big chaos at the station, everyone had to change trains for another routing, and then I had to take a bus from Amsterdam central station to Schiphol.
I normally always allow more than enough time when travelling, in this case also to do some spotting at AMS, but this time with all these problems I arrived at Schiphol 30 minutes after my flight had departed. I had to buy a new ticket and wait for another 4 hours or so for the next flight to BCN.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 7971 posts, RR: 66 Reply 8, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1593 times:
Missed quite a few, all part of the same spotting trip last year, was due to fly
PLH-BRS-DUB-LGW-EDI-DUB then DUB-SNN-DUB-MAN-BRS-PLH. Air Southwest were kind enough to cancel my first flight and only offer road transport leaving at the departure time and arriving some 2 hours later than scheduled. I would have missed all my connecting flights so I had to cancel the trip
Fbgdavidson From United Kingdom (England), joined Oct 2004, 3412 posts, RR: 34 Reply 9, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1587 times:
Missed or no show?
I was away in the US over Xmas 03 and was scheduled to fly home from IAD-LHR on BA222 (as it was then) on 2nd Jan (this was the day that BA223 malarkee was on and was cancelled and delayed due to bomb scare). Unfortunately a family emergency meant I had to fly home on 27th Dec and I couldn't get my ticket changed so bought a new one way.
Alas because the BA222 departure on 2nd Jan was put back to 12am from 9.35pm for that day I got a call from British Airways to inform me of the change. I told the agent I was already in the UK and they were rather surprised!
[Edited 2005-02-04 17:38:30]
"My first job was selling doors, door to door, that's a tough job innit" - Bill Bailey
PDXtriple7 From United States, joined Dec 2004, 622 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1558 times:
Well I guess I have missed two flights. Two summers ago, my family and I were coming back from CDG-ORD-PDX and our flight to ORD was delayed for six hours, even though the plane was on the ground. The crew went illegal. We got to spend the night in Chicago and fly out the next day. My other flight I have missed was part of my BCN-LHR-SEA flight with two other friends last summer, after we had spent three weeks studying Spanish in Tarragona, Spain. We sat on the ground for two hours and even received our meal on the ground in BCN, because French radar was down. We got to LHR and had missed our flight back to the states, so we had to spend the night in a London Hotel, which was pretty fun for three 16 year olds. The next day we were on standby for the LHR-SEA flight, and luckily made it on.
Spirtofalaska From United States, joined Jan 2005, 187 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1525 times:
Missed a flight? HA! Yeah...
When my mom and I were moving about...13 yrs ago, To Oregon, We were on our way the airport, when my mom turned around to get her bag, and it wasn't there. so we had to drive back home. The drive back to our house took too long, so we missed the flight.
The other time, I was going to Hawaii W/ My dad, we were going to leave from ANC because we got some Good tickets, and we got about halfway there from FAI, and realized we left the tickets sitting on the counter in the kitchen, Turned around drove back to FAI, and called The airline, only to have them tell us, they can't do anything for us. They only thing they could suggest was fly out on the next flight to anchorage, Which we did. That made up for the savings we got for flying out of ANC. :P, oh well.
AeroWesty From United States, joined Oct 2004, 15634 posts, RR: 66 Reply 13, posted (4 years 9 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 1523 times:
Surprisingly, only three.
First was a morning flight to EWR to catch a connection to LGW, but I overslept--woke up at the time my flight was scheduled to depart. Luckily, I was on a FF ticket, and they were able to reschedule me on the following day's flight w/o penalties. That one ended up turning back to LAX after about two hours in the air due to an engine shutdown, and I ended up getting rescheduled for later in the afternoon via DEN instead.
Second was the morning of the shoe bomber over the Atlantic, and with the airport already overwhelmed with Christmas travelers, they started closing off flights an hour ahead of normal to allow for the heightened security, even if we were in line for a normally on-time check-in. Ended up having to fly PDX-SFO-LAX-PHX the next day, on one of the only seats available before Christmas, and my first flight on an RJ. (It wasn't pleasant, LOL)
The last time was for a 6:30AM flight I was there early enough for normally, but after the agent got done flirting with the passenger she was checking in in the first class line ahead of me, announced my "flight closed exactly one minute ago" due to new software they had that predicted whether or not a person and their bags could make it together through security on the same flight. I was so unamused I drank their entire stock of Crown Royal on my rescheduled connection.
Other than that, I've come *really* close a few times, but always made it.
September11 From United States, joined May 2004, 3189 posts, RR: 27 Reply 15, posted (4 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1501 times:
I once missed a flight by one week! Obviously I clicked wrong flight date on TWA.com internet.
Went to the airport to check-in. Agent said to me: Your e-ticket is old. (automatic cancellation)....
ArmitageShanks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2003, 3074 posts, RR: 20 Reply 16, posted (4 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1499 times:
I've missed 2 flights due to my connecting flight being cancelled/delayed. I've never missed a flight due to me showing up late, etc.
CaptainTim From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Dec 2004, 429 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (4 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1496 times:
never missed one andi hope i won't in the future cuz i have NO IDEA what to do if i do *freak out*
hhaha
tim
Gulfstream Planeview Cockpit: "why have hundreds of buttons when a CCD does the same thing and more?"
Kieron747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (4 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1418 times:
It was October last year when I missed my first flight, and it wasn't even my fault!
I was meant to take a BA flight from LHR to Montreal as I was moving over here for a new job. Knowing how crappy British trains are I decided to take a one-way flight from Manchester on BMI, which was really cheap at 40 pounds.
So, my flight was scheduled to leave LHR at about 5:15pm. I arrived at Manchester at 8:00am to take the flight at about 10:30am, thus giving me plenty of time for delays and time at Heathrow to have a look around.
Of course, the BMI flight was late coming into MAN by an hour. No problem. Still a few hours to play with. I checked in, and decided to go for a swift drink in the bar. Later on, I returned, and I noticed the BMI plane was parked up at the gate with the cargo being loaded on. After checking the flight time, I had another drink, and then returned. The cargo door was still open! I later found out that they couldn't shut the bloody door, and therefore cancelled the flight!
After 2 hours waiting at the BMI desk (I'd never seen such a complete mess at the desk, as about 100 passengers were squabbling to get to the front of the queue whilst pushing, shoving, bitching and generally behaving like complete morons!) I was finally put on the 2:30pm flight to London.
Which was an hour late!
I arrived in LHR at 4:45pm. My flight to Montreal had also been delayed but it was too late for me! Luckily, after explaining the fiasco to the lovely lady at the BA desk, she booked me on the flight the next day without any charge.
So there I was, at LHR, with a 20 hour wait at the airport! I must say that I do not recommend spending that long in Heathrow overnight. I got to Montreal in the end though, and the flight was a real treat, great service, great PTV, my first time on a 777-great aeroplane!
AeroVodochody From Czech Republic, joined Feb 2005, 540 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (4 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1385 times:
I've never missed a flight although I came really close one time, I was about ten minutes late but they waited for us since there were only about 10 people on the entire flight.
SLC1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (4 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1378 times:
Once when I was travelling with girls that were slow and didn't seem to care about the flight time, and we missed the WN flight from LAS-SLC.
Another time, I came close, thanksgiving weekend traffic in SEA was horrible, and it took me 2 1/2 hours to go from UW to SEA (plus I'd missed my shuttle and had to wait an additional 30 mins) luckily my plane was delayed 3 hours and I didn't miss it, also with WN, an airline that I love to hate.
Eric777 From United States, joined Aug 2004, 198 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (4 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1370 times:
I have missed one flight to date - no fault of mine.
I was flying from JFK-SJU-EIS shortly after TWA 800 crashed. As there was multiple theories regarding the crash at the time, every piecec of luggage was scrutinized. We boarded the AA A300 on time but by the time the luggage was placed on the aircraft, we took off about an hour behind schedule. Therefore, I missed the SJU-EIS leg on Eagle. They were able to rebook all 9 of us on a flight later in the afternoon.
Cornish From United Kingdom (England), joined Feb 2005, 8092 posts, RR: 61 Reply 24, posted (4 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1370 times:
Reember friends telling us how they lay on the beach in Cyprus watching the planes taking off from Paphos airport - saw one that looked identical to the one they flew out on and said "That'll be us on that plane tomorrow"
Needless to say they realised later that day that it was one day later than they thought it was and they very plane they watched was the one they should have been on. oops.....
Just when I thought I could see light at the end of the tunnel, it was some B*****d with a torch bringing me more work
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 7254 posts, RR: 14 Reply 25, posted (4 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1347 times:
Only one....DUR-JNB the day before the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, in Johannesburg....I had a booked seat on a flight departing at 3pm and by the time I eventually got away, after calling my wife and organising a jump seat, it was close to 8pm LOL.
Moral indignation is just jealousy with a halo
26 Nwafflyer: I've missed a ton of connecting flights -- flight one gets in late, and flight two isn't held. Doesn't bother me, unless it's the last flight of the d
27 Leskova: Two flights... One from JNB to DUR - I had simply completely underestimated the traffic between Pretoria and Jo'burg, so while I was getting close to
28 BAViscount: Only one, and happily through no fault of my own. I was flying BOS-PIT-CLT with USAir back in early January 1987. Heavy snow in the Boston area the ni
29 NCLairport: I've missed 2 flights. Once when travelling NCL to JFK via CDG. Flight from Newcastle was delayed by fog and we arrived in CDG with 5 mins to spare...
30 ZKEOJ: I missed only one flight (out of more than 200). It was DUS-LHR-YYZ-YEG with AC. The 1011 already arrived an hour late in DUS, then in LHR they boarde
31 Jetpixx: I missed a flight only one time - that was last fall on CO from FLL-CLE. I originally made the reservation over the Internet and the flight was cancel
32 ACDC8: Out of the many, many, many times I've flown, I've only missed 2 flights. Both were due to bad weather in DUS so I ended up missing my connection to Y
33 RoseFlyer: I have only missed a connecting flight. It was back in July 2001 and I was traveling with my parents (yeah that sucks as is) from Bermuda to SEA via A
34 Tobi3334: Just one flight a few years ago ... when I flew back from Thessaloniki to FRA I missed my LH connection in MUC. But it was no problem, when I left the
35 Sabena332: A DL flight from ATL to SFO (got booked on a later flight) An AF flight from CDG to DUS (got booked on a later flight) A LH flight from FRA to DUS (ha
36 Jeremy: I've never missed a revenue flight. I have missed some non-revenue flights, but it's no big deal, you just catch the next one. The worst one was a TWA
37 AlitaliaMD11: Only once... And they bumped my family up to business class!! JFK-CDG on a B747-400 slept all the way and I was on the top deck!
38 Airgeek12: The only flights I ever miss is usually do to delays on the first leg of my flight so I miss my connection. Other than that I'm usually very good abou
39 ANCFlyer: Ha, would trade you places. Any time I can take a train - and in Germany - I'll be on the train!
40 BNE: I am surprised that so few have missed flights. I have missed a heap of flights, just didn't go to the airport as plans had changed. Sept 2001 Ansett
41 Sabena332: Actually I became a big fan of "Die Bahn" too, especially when I can ride on the ICE! It is awesome when you are sitting in the comfortable and quite
42 BritPilot777: I missed a flight from DTW to MCO Via IAD once, was my girlfriends fault however haha Moheet
43 Crox1: Have missed two flights:- Was flying UA LHR-LAX-FAT and return, was a mid morning flight, as I live in East London it's only an easy 45 min journey by
44 Airgeek12: Your a disgrace to the entire aviation community! No plane for you! Joe ~ Airplane Nazi
45 ACDC8: Amen, I totally agree! LH once booked me on Deutsche Bahn (the train) from DUS - FRA, I was just about in tears!
46 JGPH1A: Never have missed a plane, I think its about my biggest phobia (don't ask me why, I know it's completely stupid, but I get palpitations just thinking
47 Redngold: Zero, although there were two near misses: 1) a MetroJet flight, CLE-BWI, where I literally walked up to the gate as they were pushing the gate door c
48 UAalltheway: I have never missed a flight and most likely never will. =P I don't know how I would allow myself to sink to that degree of self-incompetence.
49 AsstChiefMark: I only missed one flight and it was the second leg of my first trip. In 1983, my company flew me out to Scarborough, Maine to repair an alternator on
50 Misbeehavin: Looks like I'm the worst so far. Over a dozen already this year!
51 Icarus75: Never missed a flight yet. May be it's because I arrive early prior departure for four reasons : - Not to miss my plane because of traffic jam or waht
52 Arkhem: Whenever I miss flights it's because I am always late coming out of the house (although Route 66 never helps). The last one I missed was IAD-BUF with
53 VS747SPUR: I've only missed one flight and that was in feb 2005, wasnt my fault though. I was travelling MCO-ATL-LGW on DL, the the MCO-ATL flight got delayed by
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that were slow and didn't seem to care about the flight time, and we missed the WN flight from LAS-SLC.
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