bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
I overheard someone trying to meet up with their driver at the Portland airport. He was in Oregon. The driver was in Maine.
For some reason that's the most painful for me. Don't know why!
DH was traveling from South America through Panama to Mexico. His particular flight from his origin city happened once a day, if I'm remembering correctly. It left at something like 1am. So of course you get there at 10 or 11pm the day before.
There was a big mixup with everyone involved that resulted in him showing up at 10ish pm on the DATE of the flight...which you can understand was nearly 24 hours AFTER his flight.
This could have just been put on him, except that the following flight she booked was totally wrong for the flight he should have been on. He was going to end up with 24 hours somewhere without a hotel booked, which the TA should have caught. None of us did.
It all worked out...he was routed through Houston for the 24 hour stay, and we have friends there who were available, and all was fine... But it taught us to really read through his itineraries, to become more involved in what the TA was booking, and it got back to the TA as well, since she didn't catch that she was giving him 24 hours without a flight OR hotel (or a head's up).