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Robin Capper's avatar

My most fun was a flight to a work-related conference in New Orleans. Booked flights to arrive the day before, planning a lazy start the next day prior to the afternoon conference start.

I got to L.A. OK but thunderstorms in Dallas (my ticketed hub change) meant a delay which stretched to 12 hours (rather than the expected 4), cancelled flights, an unplanned diversion to Miami, 9 hours sitting there (in the middle of the night with nothing open in a terminal being rebuilt, familiar!?) then back to New Orleans.

Could have been worse, at one stage I was going via San Francisco, Washington DC & Orlando... or not till Saturday when the conference was over!

I finally got to the hotel at 14:00, the conference started at 15:00!

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Holly's avatar

No hot chips available after 4pm is madness. If only it was Singapore Airport

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Dunc Wilson's avatar

Ah! If it was Singapore, I would've gone down the giant slide, had my feet nibbled by fish, ordered a beautiful vegan burger and probably found some other wild entertainment, all in the first four hours!

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Holly's avatar

Oh no one told me about the slide!

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Robin Capper's avatar

The glamour of travel!

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Dunc Wilson's avatar

I know, right! We are so lucky to get around the way we do, but sometimes there's a link in the chain missing...

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