Spent 8 hours trying to get somewhere 2 hours away today.
That is, I spent 8 hours in Phoenix trying to fly home to Flagstaff.
The problem is that it was all a small set of incremental decisions which are each reasonable but the overall outcome is just stupid.
My flight from SFO arrives at 2 pm for a 1 hour layover. Then the flight to Flagstaff is 1/2 hour late leaving…then they decide to switch from a 37 seat plane to a 20 seat plane…bumping 17 people. I’m #38 (don’t know how that works, but I was), so I know I’m getting forcibly bumped. Since I haven’t eaten all day, I volunteer for what I think is the 8pm flight, thinking I can change my mind and drive if I have to, but I have to eat first before I can make my decision.
But with one thing and another, I don’t get the paperwork until 5:30… At that point, I would still have to uncheck my bag, then rent a car, so I decide what the hell, I’ll wait, I’m tired anyways.
Except what I heard as the 8pm flight was actually the 8:56 flight. I kind of missed the :56 part.
Except now its 9:30, and the flight coming in from Flagstaff still hasn’t arrived, and it takes at least 20 minutes to turn the plane. So if it arrived right now, it wouldn’t leave until 9:50. So maybe I’ll get out of here at 10, then a 40 minute flight, so 10:40. If I’d just gotten my suitcase and rented a car, I would have been home at 6…
Sigh. And I’ll have to get a cab ride once I get to Flagstaff…
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