August 7, 2008 3:23PM

Oh, the Irony

By Brian Sullivan

It must be bad karma from writing about the airlines. My 3:38pm flight to Detroit on Northwest is delayed for three hours. Apparently the plane needs maintenance. Either way I will now miss my connecting flight, with the next one being the same time (6:30pm) on Friday.

So it looks like I’m going to get to the Motor City around 9pm tonight, rent a car and drive the 7 hours. Northwest won’t comp a hotel room because in their view they are getting me to Detroit, the destination on my first ticket. It’s drive or literally get there 24 hours later.

There’s irony here somewhere.

4 Responses to “Oh, the Irony”

Comment by John Tabacco

August 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Bri,
Another great example of why Private Jets is the new wave in air travel. Whats the opportunity cost? You shoudla just Private Jetted it. JT
Comment by Roger Raycraft

August 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Brian,

It was great meeting you at the airport on Thursday while we waited for the 3:38 flight that never took place. I was able to get on the 5:30 flight to Detroit only to sit and wait for 3 hours in Detroit, then another 30 minutes on top of that due to a late flight arriving from Texas. I finally made it home by 12:30 am. See what you started by doing your interview earlier in the day. Hope you made it to Iron Mountain to see your family.

Roger.
Comment by Jonathan

August 10th, 2008 at 5:03 am

It’s all about the service. Good luck!
Comment by chuck

August 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

John real fab point about the private jets.
I heard in the next ten years now that Honda and Eclipse have tested and created private smaller jets that we could see the creation of more regional airlines to get a passenger from point a to point b.
Last year I was delayed at the Philadelphia Internationa Airport becouse of a traffic control glitch that threw all airlines into a wild fluke. We travelers consulted each other to find out what happend in the terminus. I didn’t get home until late Saturday afternoon.