My flight arrangements.
Jul. 23rd, 2002 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI've made them. I'm going home. I'll be traveling for rather some time, but at least I'm going the fsck home. . .
Be warned, this looks more like an algebra problem or something than a flight itinerary within the United States. At least, to my way of thinking.
On 25 July 2002, a Thursday, Delta Air Lines Flight 2035, an MD-80 plane, leaves San Antonio International Airport (Terminal 1) at 1:30 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and debark at Terminal E at 2:39 PM Central Daylight Time. My seat is supposed to be 18E. ("... and rows 20 through 26 fell off the back of the plane as a result of the wind shear incident...")
ATA flight 954, a Boeing 737-800, leaves DFW at 4:45 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Chicago Midway Airport at 7:05 PM Central Daylight Time. More information than that I do not have.
ATA Flight 278, a Boeing 757, leaves DFW at 8:55 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Newark International Airport at 12:15 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, on 26 July 2002 - a Friday.
I live roughly 30 to 45 minutes from Newark International Airport by car.
I'm gonna be flying home on Thursday and landing on Friday, if all goes well. I may go home tonight and box up half my stuff, then ship it home via the Postal Service - two layovers and an airline change do NOT make me feel happy about my luggage's chances of getting to Newark at the same time as myself.
But for now, I'm here and I'm in the hotel. I check out of work tomorrow. Here's hoping I get to go to the animal safari one more time before I leave - more than the Alamo or the Buckhorn I think I'll remember that about visiting Texas.
Be warned, this looks more like an algebra problem or something than a flight itinerary within the United States. At least, to my way of thinking.
On 25 July 2002, a Thursday, Delta Air Lines Flight 2035, an MD-80 plane, leaves San Antonio International Airport (Terminal 1) at 1:30 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and debark at Terminal E at 2:39 PM Central Daylight Time. My seat is supposed to be 18E. ("... and rows 20 through 26 fell off the back of the plane as a result of the wind shear incident...")
ATA flight 954, a Boeing 737-800, leaves DFW at 4:45 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Chicago Midway Airport at 7:05 PM Central Daylight Time. More information than that I do not have.
ATA Flight 278, a Boeing 757, leaves DFW at 8:55 PM Central Daylight Time. It is scheduled to land at Newark International Airport at 12:15 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, on 26 July 2002 - a Friday.
I live roughly 30 to 45 minutes from Newark International Airport by car.
I'm gonna be flying home on Thursday and landing on Friday, if all goes well. I may go home tonight and box up half my stuff, then ship it home via the Postal Service - two layovers and an airline change do NOT make me feel happy about my luggage's chances of getting to Newark at the same time as myself.
But for now, I'm here and I'm in the hotel. I check out of work tomorrow. Here's hoping I get to go to the animal safari one more time before I leave - more than the Alamo or the Buckhorn I think I'll remember that about visiting Texas.
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ATA
Date: 2002-07-23 12:34 pm (UTC)Understand the homesickness. Spent too much time in Dallas for business purposes and only wanted to go home once I got there.
Re: ATA
Date: 2002-07-23 12:38 pm (UTC)Two comments...
Date: 2002-07-23 12:48 pm (UTC)Admittedly, some of the clusterfuck surrounding my one-and-only flying experience with them was not their fault. The fact that Chicago was fogged in and I almost missed a job interview wasn't their fault. The fact that they couldn't get the passengers information about the delays, couldn't even hand out blankets and pillows, let alone snacks, don't even think about things like hotel or meals, when we were marooned in Columbus as a result of Chicago being fogged in was their fault. The fact that they'd lied to me about how full the flight was and made me check one of my two carry-ons (and yes, they were really carry-on size, either one would go happily under the seat), thereby preventing me from bailing out, renting a car, and driving from Columbus to Chicago faster than the plane would have gotten me there, so I could actually sleep before my job interview and not have to change into my suit in the hospital bathroom, was entirely their fault. <pant, pant> Sorry. I hope your luck was better than mine was...
2) Reading your itinerary, either a) ATA 278 flies out of MDW, not DFW, b) Both ATA 954 and ATA 278 fly DFW to MDW, with 278 continuing to EWR, and you decided you'd rather have a layover at MDW and change planes than stay in Texas one minute longer than you had to, or c) ATA 954, and the stop at Midway, are red herrings. Please clarify.
Re: Two comments...
Date: 2002-07-23 01:23 pm (UTC)