re: Whats you worst airplane experience?

A bit of a tl;dr story, but I'll do my best to abbreviate it.

We were flying from Boston to Chicago about a week before Christmas for a weekend trip. Yes, horrible time of the year to fly.

Had two first class tickets for the first flight in the morning (5:45ish) and got there at 4:30. Had to check a bag, and the machines were malfunctioning. Got bumped to 3 different lines, and finally were told at 5:15 that it was too late and they had to change our flight. Frustrating, but there was one leaving 30 minutes later. They couldn't guarantee a first-class seat, but at this point whatever.

The security line was the longest one I've ever seen, but since we had priority on our ticket we didn't have to go through it. The woman at security didn't understand that since we got bumped, the code on our ticket was slightly different than it otherwise would be. She tried to make us go to the back of the long line, but after some arguing she let us through.

We made it to our gate, and the gate right next to ours was our original flight...still boarding. So we could have made our first flight and been guaranteed first class.

We go to board our next flight on standby, and the woman checking people in tell the two people in front of us that they were in luck, there were two open seats in first class. We had to step in and explain that we had priority because we were bumped from our first flight, making us look like assholes. But at the end of the day, we made it to Chicago only 40 minutes later than scheduled and the free drinks in first class were able to put me in a better mood.