Side Trip In Airport Leads to Near Missed Flight
After a whirlwind weekend visiting friends in Orlando, Florida, my girlfriend and I were headed home to Houston, Texas. We had chosen to fly home on a Tuesday, as prices would be lower and the airports...
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I was travelling from Oslo, Norway to Frankfurt (I had taken a domestic flight from Tromso to Oslo just a few hours before). While going through Immigration (where they had to X-ray our hand carry...
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About ten years ago, I was running extremely late with my family for an American Airlines flight. When I was going through security, I got stopped by two old Cuban ladies who were behind a desk at the...
View ArticleVexed by Visa Problems
My husband and I recently took a trip to Australia from the USA to visit his ailing elderly father. I am an American citizen, and my husband is an Australian national and is also an alien resident in...
View ArticleSlow Service Leads to Missed Flight and Fee
Dear friends, I would like to share my experience in Helsinki less than a month ago, May 22, 2016. I had a 40 minute connection between the flights from Moscow to NYC. Because the hand luggage...
View ArticlePhony Excuses for Overbooking Practices
A few years ago I had such a ridiculously bad and unforgivable experience with Hong Kong Airlines that sometimes I find it hard to believe that it actually happened. I was meant to fly back to Hong...
View ArticleExcuse Concocted to Cover-Up Overbooking
I have been an international business traveler for over two decades now. My story starts on my way back from a long stretch in Kuwait. Returning to Europe, I had a 1.5 hour layover in Qatar. I had some...
View ArticleMistaken as an FBI Most Wanted Fugitive
It was a cold winter Friday morning in 1995 when I left home for a very important trip. As a senior scientist I was in charge of running a $30,000 experiment I’d been planning for months. It was a...
View ArticleRefused Boarding for Wrong Name
Wanted to let everyone know about me getting ripped off for $1,000 by Virgin Atlantic airlines. I am a 73-year old college instructor who decided to visit Athens, Greece, for Spring Break. A friend...
View ArticlePlan to Meet Brother on Plane Goes Awry
My flight on Delta was delayed by 26 minutes. The counter person generously upgraded me to the 12th row so I could make my connecting flight in SLC. I thought to myself, okay… we can do this, the...
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