Airlines Suck

I was supposed to go to work today. I woke up at 6am to catch a
flight from Vail, CO to Los Angeles but of course my flight has been
delayed. Shocker!

And it’s not because we’re snowed in or the engine failed or a
deranged mental patient is pretending to be a terrorist. No, my 8am
commuter flight from Vail to Denver has been delayed for crew rest.

A 24 minute flight that runs on a bus schedule has been delayed over
an hour because the crew needs to rest. Which is only odd because it’s
the first flight of the morning, so one would think that they had the
whole night to rest. But maybe the pilot hit the snooze button one too
many times.

And there in lies the problem with airlines. You’re completely at
their mercy. If they want to sit inside the plane and eat ring dings
and ho-hos and jam out to Def Leopard’s greatest hits, then I have to
sit and wait.

Meanwhile I’m missing my connecting flight from Denver to Los
Angeles which just might be part of their early morning joke to ruin my
day because they’re re-routing me from Denver to Palm Springs and Palm
Springs to Ontario and Ontario to Los Angeles. Why not just send me
through Saigon? I always wanted to see the inside of a Vietnamese whore
house.

Of course while I write this they just announced that there now is a
mechanical problem. It’s just funny that they couldn’t fix it while the
crew was resting because now I’m going to miss my Palm Springs
connection. Maybe I will get to see that whore house after all.

So needless to say, David if you’re reading this, I won’t be into work today.