Hit a snag on the way home.
They did not have a full crew so our flight from Jo'Burg to London was cancelled. That's when the fun began. British Airways was completely unprepared for dealing with a plane full of people.
We had to get off the plane, go back through immigration, collect our bags and stand in line. Angela and I did a divide-and-conquer approach; I got in the line upstairs while she waited for the bags. Eventually British Airways informed us that Business class and First class passengers should go to the City Lodge hotel for the night. Our flight is scheduled for tomorrow morning. So we walked over to the City Lodge hotel only to find a really long line of pissed off passengers. British Airways only send over 13 vouchers for the entire collection of First and Business class passengers. Angela and I just booked rooms on our own credit card and will deal with British Airways later.
Anyway, I'm booked on a 9:20 am flight tomorrow morning to London. I doubt that I will make the last flight out of London to JFK so I'm probably going to spend a night in London too.
Anyway, at least it was a good trip and, as my friend reminded me, at least this didn't happen on the way there.
They did not have a full crew so our flight from Jo'Burg to London was cancelled. That's when the fun began. British Airways was completely unprepared for dealing with a plane full of people.
We had to get off the plane, go back through immigration, collect our bags and stand in line. Angela and I did a divide-and-conquer approach; I got in the line upstairs while she waited for the bags. Eventually British Airways informed us that Business class and First class passengers should go to the City Lodge hotel for the night. Our flight is scheduled for tomorrow morning. So we walked over to the City Lodge hotel only to find a really long line of pissed off passengers. British Airways only send over 13 vouchers for the entire collection of First and Business class passengers. Angela and I just booked rooms on our own credit card and will deal with British Airways later.
Anyway, I'm booked on a 9:20 am flight tomorrow morning to London. I doubt that I will make the last flight out of London to JFK so I'm probably going to spend a night in London too.
Anyway, at least it was a good trip and, as my friend reminded me, at least this didn't happen on the way there.
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