My sister Lynette flew in to Kansas City today with Leigha in tow after her two week stay in Nevada. Boy how I wish that sentance was the whole of it. They left from Sacramento (a two hour drive from Reno, since we can't get Lynette tickets out of Reno. The arline doesn't go there anymore. DUMB.) early early in the morning to make the 6am flight to Denver. The flights from Denver into Kansas City were full all day so we wanted to get them as many chances to make it in as possible. For good measure we also sent Jason out there because 1. he has an employee discount to all the shops and restaurants in airports, 2. Lynette could use an extra set of hands dealing with Leigha and carrying their stuff, 3. When the employee flies with the pass riders they have a better chance of getting on and 4. He wouldn't even take up an extra seat since he's allowed to fly jumpseat IN THE COCKPIT. (Rethinking your desk job now, huh? Mua ha ha!) So Bri and I were the only ones at home today, waiting for word that they got on a flight. Unfortunately, they got bumped, and bumped, and bumped. They keep saying on the news that airline travel is down and flights are empty........I want you all to know what a load of baloney that is. Blah blah, airlines dropping flights, blah blah.....our airline hasn't lost a single route or dropped any flights from the roster and our flights are full, full, people clinging to the wings full. Jason and I have had to use other airlines when flying this Summer because of it! Unfortunately, as I said before, we couldn't get Lynette passes on other airlines or else they could have flown out of Reno. Back to the story at hand now, Bri and I waited for the 'we got on a flight!' call and it never came. At one point Jason said, 'Nine people didn't show up so they're going to release their seats.' Unfortunately, those nine people came running up in a group at the last second. Lame. Board when you're supposed to, people, you're holding up everybody else. It got later, Bri and I had dinner together, Jason made plans to stay with some friends of ours in Denver overnight, and there was one last flight of the day that was full up but they decided to try for it anyhow. It delayed for an hour because of weather (naturally) but lo and behold, they all got seats on that plane! Jason called while they were walking down the jetway and I said, "What??? Really???? Awesome!" They made it to the house about midnight. Oh, yeah, the picture. I told Bri to make sad faces with me so we could post a picture of us looking sad if they got bumped and the sad face turned into a full on crazy face war. You're welcome.
Monday, July 27, 2009
That Guffman.........such a slow dude.
My sister Lynette flew in to Kansas City today with Leigha in tow after her two week stay in Nevada. Boy how I wish that sentance was the whole of it. They left from Sacramento (a two hour drive from Reno, since we can't get Lynette tickets out of Reno. The arline doesn't go there anymore. DUMB.) early early in the morning to make the 6am flight to Denver. The flights from Denver into Kansas City were full all day so we wanted to get them as many chances to make it in as possible. For good measure we also sent Jason out there because 1. he has an employee discount to all the shops and restaurants in airports, 2. Lynette could use an extra set of hands dealing with Leigha and carrying their stuff, 3. When the employee flies with the pass riders they have a better chance of getting on and 4. He wouldn't even take up an extra seat since he's allowed to fly jumpseat IN THE COCKPIT. (Rethinking your desk job now, huh? Mua ha ha!) So Bri and I were the only ones at home today, waiting for word that they got on a flight. Unfortunately, they got bumped, and bumped, and bumped. They keep saying on the news that airline travel is down and flights are empty........I want you all to know what a load of baloney that is. Blah blah, airlines dropping flights, blah blah.....our airline hasn't lost a single route or dropped any flights from the roster and our flights are full, full, people clinging to the wings full. Jason and I have had to use other airlines when flying this Summer because of it! Unfortunately, as I said before, we couldn't get Lynette passes on other airlines or else they could have flown out of Reno. Back to the story at hand now, Bri and I waited for the 'we got on a flight!' call and it never came. At one point Jason said, 'Nine people didn't show up so they're going to release their seats.' Unfortunately, those nine people came running up in a group at the last second. Lame. Board when you're supposed to, people, you're holding up everybody else. It got later, Bri and I had dinner together, Jason made plans to stay with some friends of ours in Denver overnight, and there was one last flight of the day that was full up but they decided to try for it anyhow. It delayed for an hour because of weather (naturally) but lo and behold, they all got seats on that plane! Jason called while they were walking down the jetway and I said, "What??? Really???? Awesome!" They made it to the house about midnight. Oh, yeah, the picture. I told Bri to make sad faces with me so we could post a picture of us looking sad if they got bumped and the sad face turned into a full on crazy face war. You're welcome.
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Ahh young grasshopper is learning from the master.
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