Yearly Archives: 2007

3 days in French hell… A multi country epic tale (part 2)

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International airspace somewhere in the atlantic 9:00am

Finally on a moving plane , flying somewhere over the atlantic .
so far for those keeping track .

Delay times

  1. 1.5 – 2 hours – Logan Airport
  2. 5 hours – broken plane out of gate – philidelphia airport inside of plane
  3. 45minutes – 1 hour – attempt #2 at taking off philidelphia airport illegal flight crew.
  4. 5 hours – inside gate 22(?) at airport finding new crew .

Total delays to this point:
12hours 15mins (min)
13 hours 0 mins (max)

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3 days in French hell… A multi-country epic tale (part 3)

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Paris International Airport – 12:20am

Heading back to the hotel no food, no place to stay , i head to where the US airways desk will open up in 8 hours, and just sit there, nothing i can do , at this point anger is over me. panic is over me. nothing i can do .

Total Delay so far – 18 hours
Total time spent awake – 47 hours
Amount of Euros on my person – 105€
Amount of Euros able to be spent – 0€
Tempature on day 1 – 93f
Tempature on day 2 – 91f
Tempature on day 3 – 85f high humidity

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