Last weekend I missed my plane. Flying from Cedar Rapids Iowa to San Diego California. I thought my flight left at 11:59am, so I took my time and ended up at the airport around 10:30. Pleeeeeeeenty of time right? WRONG! My flight left at 8am and the 11:59 was my connecting flight in Minneapolis. Standby had over 25 people on the list so basically that meant I was screwed. I could return Monday morning at 8am but that’s a boring 24 hour wait and a $100 change fee to change my ticket. Talk about lame. So I heard a little somethin somethin about taking your ticket and trading it in at another airline. I hit them all up but they were booked, and then I got to American Airlines (or American Eagle, I don’t know what their exact name is). They got me on a plane that left in 20 minutes and for how much? The price of FREE! Yes! They told me that they’ll just give the ticket to NWA and they’d buy it outright.
A few longs layovers, a cab ride home, and I come home to find 3 tickets from the city of San Diego @ $47 each. What!? Yeah talk about adding insult to ‘almost’ injury. I didn’t have my wheels turned into the curb on the hill. I didn’t even know that was a law. Yeah I’ll be fighting those tickets. Because of the money? No, because it’s the principal of the matter. I don’t agree with so many tickets. It makes me upset.
The moral of the story… if you miss your plane don’t get screwed by the man, just hit up the competitors until you find a seat. And screw those traffic cops, fight those tickets too.
