Tell me your airport horror story

[STEEZUS_CHRI5T]

Huh? I’m flying standby with American Airlines, there’s nothing for me to cancel or call Southwest about lol.

Just made it on a nice ass plane to Phoenix, gonna try to connect to SFO from there.

Lol idk honestly

 

[skierman]

Currently stuck at Chicago O’Hare. This is gonna sound chaotic as fuck but I was planning on flying standby with American to San Francisco to get my truck that I left in a random parking lot there almost a month ago, and then drive it down to Santa Barbara to pick up the boys, then drive out to SLC for a week. It’s already an absolute shit show of a plan to begin with, but now with this whole southwest situation going on, all the other airlines are getting overloaded and it’s nearly impossible to get on a flight without paying $1-5k. Just praying I can get on standby to some plane going west and figure it out from there. My head feels like it’s gonna explode lol.

That's what you get for using stupid fucking terms like, "the boys" to describe friends you barely know.

 

[ASAPCarter]

That's what you get for using stupid fucking terms like, "the boys" to describe friends you barely know.

I’ve lived with these guys for the past 3 years lol, nice try tho Scott

 

[IHatePedophiles]

just fly into toronto pearson

 

[STEEZUS_CHRI5T]

Got this SouthWest email today about their cancellation

 

[theabortionator]

Everyone get home eventually or you still stuck in the terminal?

 

[BearsOnKetamine]

finding terminal 2 at jfk for a layover that is an hour shorter than it should be and then sprinting from gate one to 52.

 

[littleman34]

I saw a really pregnant lady wearing really low cut jeans with the zipper undone

 

[1337]

I once shut down about 20 lanes of TSA checkpoints at Logan Airport.

I was flying out to West Coast Sessions at Mt. Hood, and was traveling with a bunch of camera gear. I had stashed a couple batteries for my flashes in my carry on (you have to keep lithium batteries on you and they can't be checked) and had my camera in a backpack. No biggie, right? WRONG. My bag goes through the X-Ray machine, then the conveyor stops moving. It reverses, stops again. The guy looking at the monitor calls over another TSA agent. They both are looking kind of concerned, whispering, then they pick up the red fucking telephone on top of the xray machine. Immediately these doors start closing into the security area and other agents start clearing all the passengers and move them to other lanes that are at least 15-20 rows away. I am left standing alone next to the machine while people stare at me from the other side of the security zone. Awfully embarrassing for a 20 year old. As I'm waiting I'm listening to the elevator music that they play in airports and those security messages about unattended luggage yadda yadda, and then this Mass State Trooper walks up to me and says he's the fucking CHIEF OF SECURITY for Logan Airport - the same guy that reads all the messages on the loudspeaker. He asks me what I've got in my bag and my scared ass explains to him it's camera gear, I'm a ski photographer, and I'm going to shoot out in Oregon. Dude was actually really intrigued, spent all of 10 seconds looking at the gear and gives me the OK to move on and tells me to have fun shooting. TSA was shook as I strolled out of there.

Made my flight, and got the shot. All is well that ends well.

 

[saskskier]

Got weather delayed at Pearson in Toronto on the way to NYC. Delayed 30 min, 45 min, another 30 min, an hour, etc. End up getting delayed about 9 hours. By the time we got to NYC, we lost our sketchy Airbnb for the night because they didn't want to meet up so late. Ended up getting a last minute hotel deal on a room on the 14th floor overlooking Times Square. Heard someone playing Careless Whisper on a saxophone at like, 3am. NYC delivered.