re: Christmas Travel Thread

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Sounds like a busy back and forth between time zones for you the next week. Anything specific planned in Vegas?

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Just a quick trip out for the wife's birthday. Have a couple dinner reservations and planning to see Absinthe tomorrow night, but other than that we really have no plan.

Also, the new T3 SkyClub at LAX is gorgeous

Had 3 delays getting out of ellick, not weather related. Fortunately had 3.5 hours to kill (originally) in DFW but that was reduced to roughly 45 mins. Fortunately zero issues with the connection. Looked like a rough day if you were trying to get to the PNW or great lakes. Safe travels to everyone

Lots of planes today. 2 domestics flights in Japan. From Tokyo to ATL with the Br flight delayed forever. Made it back at 1am. 30+hours of travel and now I can't sleep

Of course it appears my original itinerary through Chicago would have went off without much of a hitch today, though one HVAC coincidentally died so my flight change gave me a chance to fix it and move Christmas to my in-laws.

When I got to airport this morning, they announced that due to the storms, they didn't have enough crew to operate the original plane and were downgraded to a smaller plane with 30 less seats. 30 people showed up to he airport finding out they were fricked.

So it was voucher city. Tried to bump my infant to a lap child to get the cash, but it was such a mad house and took me so long to get to counter the gate attendant was worried he'd mess up the whole itinerary.

Sounds like you had quite the adventure today. Sounds like CuseTiger may be in for a white knuckle travel day tomorrow as well.

Southwest to Denver, you should be glad they even got you out of AUS. Their operation has been a mess the last couple of days.

Southwest Declares "State of Operational Emergency" in Denver

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While airlines around the country are having operational challenges, nothing is quite as bad as Southwest Airlines’ situation in Denver. The airline has declared a state of emergency, and is threatening to terminate ramp employees for any of a number of reasons. This includes if they call in sick but don’t get a doctor’s note from an in-person visit, or even if they need to take a personal absence.

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From what I saw, the issue with WN in Denver was they didn't have enough ramp crew. A TPA-DEN flight turned around somewhere over Oklahoma and went back because they didn't have anybody to unload the plane in Denver

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This is hour 19 awake. I'm gonna see this through.

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Makes getting home that much more glorious. Good luck man.

Thanks but I'm where I should be, just over here crossing streams trying to address a different deal that's six months out since I'm bored.

Booked a flight to Hawaii via LAX on Alaska. Alaska was apparently starting up service to Hawaii from LAX.

I say WAS because I get a "schedule change" alert in the app that says I have to call them. Didn't want to deal with it. Also, the term "schedule change" was kind of... misleading!

Yesterday I look into it. Well, before flying the Hawaii route once they decided to get rid of it. At the same time the stopped service from my airport to LAX. Double whammy

The price I got was awesome when I booked so I'm hoping they put me on a similar route via Seattle. If they don't rebooking 6 people gonna cost me some change.

As an update, my two minute shower has now cost me over two hours. I'm pretty sure they all went home.

Update: somehow hacked the phone tree and got a callback in 5 minutes? This was after being quoted 8 hours and 3.5 hour hold times. Went back in needing "website help."