Plane Travel: Best or Worst Experiences
On a positive note, I remember returning back to the United States after spending a couple of weeks in Saudi Arabia providing teacher training to language instructors there. It was a wonderful experience, and after the training, I was looking forward to being back home. Before I boarded the plane, I was pleasantly surprised to find out I had enough extra flying miles to upgrade me to first class, something I wasn't expecting, but I didn't pass up the chance to ride up front for the first . . . and probably last . . . time in my life.
On the other hand, I have had my share of unpleasant experiences in flying, and on one occasion abroad, my flight was delayed for over six hours in an international airport that resulted in my missing my connecting flight once I returned to the United States, causing me to have to stay in a hotel once extra night. Spending time in an airport in another country where you don't speak the language and you don't understand the flight announcements can be mentally and emotionally challenging. I just tried to smile and count my blessings that I had a family back home that was waiting for me.
Now, these experiences are not very extreme in nature, but it is likely that you have had both your share of good and bad travel moments. Please share them with us.
Best,
Randall
21 comments:
After spending a couple of weeks in Florida and by the time I should return to work in France, I had a bad experiece : my first flight to New-York was cancel in order of frozen ground in N.York and then, I missed the flight to my final destination.
I worried for be late at work, but I could not nothing for help...
I forgot to give my name, sorry
oiseaubird is Catherine from France
Have a good day
I am oiseaubird and I forgot to tell my name, sorry
catherine from France
Hello everyone,
I also had the experience of having a flight back home canceled because of bad weather. I was flying from Dallas, US to São Paulo, Brazil. It resulted in my missing my connecting flight from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Back in Brazil I had to pay somewhat of a penalty late fee, which was a bit expensive. I wasn't really expecting that. :-(
Bruno (BRA)
I think fly when the inclement weather like you say,probably passenger expect announcement about cancelation or diferent changes.
I have not taken any flight yet, but I will do in near future. And I really don't want to face any problems with my flight. Thanks for sharing the useful experience and sympathise with you about the problems that you have met.
Trang Nguyen from Vietnam
During my last trip in Menorca (one moth ago), the return flight was delayed, maybe for technical reasons..?
No information or details were given us!
We had been waiting our flight for 2 hours at the Menorca Airport before we were boarded.
Anyway, despite the late boarding the Spanair flight was a good one.
And the Menorca island was a beautiful heaven to travel trough!
I am going to take a long journey to UK from Viet Nam for my studying. That will be a nightmare if I miss my connecting flight.Let's keep my fingers crossed and try to think about any bad situation I may have to deal with !Thanks for any other comment .That is valuable experience for me too !:)
I travel with flight from Malaysia to Australia for studies. I have been sitting flight for 7 times (7 one way). Fortunately, I haven't face any trouble for the flight. But I find that the big differences between cheap flight and expensive flight are
1) the queuing time needed to check in
(there is always a long line for cheap flight)
2) the services we got in the flight.
haha
I had taken so many flights, you are bound to get some bad ones. The most annoying one would be the shortest one, too. Las Vegas back home to San Fransisco. Too lazy to take the bus back, I bought a plane ticket. The weather was bad and I waited 9 hours in the airport, with all the noise of the slot-machines for a 20 min. flight... :) But, consider the good ones - like when you are upgraded for free, when there's a great movie on board, the food is actually good, the person sitting next to you is sleeping or you have a great talk. :)
Hi, I had to wait 6 hours in a local airport due that my flight has not any crew or pilot to fly the airplane, can you believe it?
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You have become like a guiding light to me. When I started a project
on similar topic I could not get enough information to carry further.
But as soon as I read your article, my project is doing great and
I hope to get an A+ this time. thanks
A frustrated experience for my son: when he bound for State College with connection in Toronto and Detroit, his first flight to Toront delayed due to a heartattack patient in that plane. The plane had to flight back to Clagary for rescuing the patient in a big hospital. Then the plan re-flew to Toronto. As the result, my son cannot catch up the next plane flying to Detroit. He had to stay in Toront overnight. When he landed the Detroit, he also cannot catch up the plane flying to State College of course. When he arrived at the college, he missed one day class. But he got a lot of experence in the airport.
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I'm a student from Vietnam. This is the first time I read this web. I hope learning English in Internet help me improve 4 skills of English. The first topic I listen is about the airport. So excited when I do the quiz. Atually I have never traveled by plane. So I have no experience about airport. But I believe I will go to work or study in another country by plane... Have a good day...
I am very happy with your blog because is the opportunity for better my English. I´ve got problems to listen and understand Australian people. Thanks.
Fortunately I didn't have such problems with canceling or delaying flights, but I can say that every time I travel by plane I am very afraid of this.
I remember returning back to the United States after spending a couple of weeks in Saudi Arabia providing teacher training to language instructors there.
I have had my share of unpleasant experiences in flying, and on one occasion abroad, my flight was delayed for over six hours in an international airport
On next week I'll take my first abroad flight, so i didn't have a bad experience with planes, and I really hope to be happy in my first experience.
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