Post by dancingnancy on Mar 30, 2021 13:33:29 GMT -5
In before times I traveled all the time for work and missed layovers but that doesn’t count cause it wasn’t my fault. One time when I was an irresponsible 20 something going on a work trip to Hawaii, I invited my friend and we thought it would be really smart to get drunk the night before we flew to Hawaii and missed the flight. We miraculously got on the next flight and managed to make the original connection in LAX but that was brutal and a mistake I never made again.
I’m a very anxious traveler so I am always very over-prepared. I’ve never missed a flight or train. However, once my ex and I went to the wrong airport - there are two DC airports and we went to the wrong one. We didn’t realize until we tried to check our bags. We practically ran out and still managed to make our flight at the other airport lol.
Wait, what? There's only National/Reagan in DC. Dulles is in Virginia and BWI is in Maryland.
Or maybe there's one I don't know about?
I haven't missed a flight or train. I've had some close calls on connections. Especially when the board is wrong so you run to one gate and they're like "oh it's moved" and you have to run to your new gate.
National/Reagan is in Virginia as well, if you put in WAS as the airport code (instead of DCA for Reagan or IAD for Dulles) they both come up. Departures are usually listed/announced as Washington-Dulles and Washington-Reagan.
Post by InBetweenDays on Mar 30, 2021 13:45:23 GMT -5
I've missed two flights that were my fault (I've missed many connections due to weather). First time was September of my freshman year of college. Had to fly from Burlington VT to Missoula MT for my brother's wedding. Which meant I had to fly BTV to BOS to MSP to MSO (with a stop in Great Falls to let people off). My flight from BTV was WAY late and I knew I would miss my connection in BOS. But decided to still fly to BOS to at least get to a major airport. Got to BOS and took the T to Boston College to stay with some friends. This was at like midnight. My flight the next morning was at 8am. Needless to say we overslept and I missed my flight. This was Friday and the rehearsal dinner was that night. The gate agent in BOS told me they could get me to MSP that day, but no further. I opted for that because MSP is where I was from so at least get me somewhere I knew. Flew to MSP, got off the plane, and was immediately paged over the loud speaker to get to the nearest courtesy phone (this was before cell phones). Picked up the courtesy phone and found out I was booked on a flight that left in 10 minutes at the opposite end of the airport. Barely made that flight, and arrived in MSO (without my luggage) about an hour before the rehearsal. Found out later that a family friend that worked for 3M called Northwest Airlines and used some clout he pretended to have to get me on that flight
Second time was flying from SEA to MSO. Just stupid 22 year old and I read the arrival time as the departure time. Got to the airport and JUST missed the flight.
I missed a flight from the Denver airport once. I've flown out of that airport so many times, but that day security was seriously nuts. I've never seen it that bad before or since. Luckily I was flying for work so I was able to call our travel person from the line and get switched to a later flight.
I’m a very anxious traveler so I am always very over-prepared. I’ve never missed a flight or train. However, once my ex and I went to the wrong airport - there are two DC airports and we went to the wrong one. We didn’t realize until we tried to check our bags. We practically ran out and still managed to make our flight at the other airport lol.
Wait, what? There's only National/Reagan in DC. Dulles is in Virginia and BWI is in Maryland.
Or maybe there's one I don't know about?
I haven't missed a flight or train. I've had some close calls on connections. Especially when the board is wrong so you run to one gate and they're like "oh it's moved" and you have to run to your new gate.
National/Reagan is in VA (Arlington, to be exact). There is no airport within the DC city limits.
We were once running late for a flight. Like it would have been tight as it was, then 5 miles from the house I realized I never grabbed my wallet. We turned around and dialed the airline from the car. It was southwest and I learned the details of their “flat tire policy.” They told me to proceed to the airport when I could and they would put me one a flight. Said I didn’t even need to call, but then the lady when ahead and rebooked me for the next flight.
Post by lilypad1126 on Mar 30, 2021 13:50:10 GMT -5
I have never missed a flight or a train. I am chronically early and NO WAY do I want to deal with the hassle of missing a flight.
However, one time when I was traveling for work, a coworker offered to drive. I was like sure, great. She was insistent that we could leave 3 hours before our flight, make the 1.5 hour drive, park, and get to our gate in plenty of time. Ok, sounds reasonable (though I'm more of the get to the airport 2 hours early for every flight crowd, but whatever). Between her being 15 minutes late to pick me up, terrible traffic on the highway, and then not being able to find parking, we got inside the airport about 20 minutes before our flight was scheduled to leave. She wasn't pre-checked and tried to convince me to go through regular security with her, and I was like, I'll see you at the gate or at the conference, but I'm going through pre-check. I made it just in time to board with my group. Anyway, she was the last person to get on the plane and she came down the aisle with a coffee and a breakfast sandwich, and was like, "oh hey I made it!" Meanwhile I was basically hyperventilating, haha.
To her credit, she did admit that we cut it too close.
Post by pinkplasticdoll on Mar 30, 2021 14:06:49 GMT -5
Yes, my husband was slow moving to get up and moving the morning of a flight and we missed it. We also missed a flight with our daughter because we couldn't find her shoes,my husband was tasked with getting everything ready for her the night before so we just had to change her and put on her shoes well he didn't and we missed the flight but really I can't 100% blame him for that one.
No. Being late to anything is a huge anxiety trigger for me. I blame it on the fact that my mom was always late when I was growing up. I was always the last one to be picked up from any event and I HATED it.
My H is the same. His dad was always late and he hated it. Now he always arrives 30 min before anything starts just to be sure, even if the meeting is a 5 min drive from the house.
Post by jamie.1022 on Mar 30, 2021 14:14:47 GMT -5
Yes a flight to Miami for our 10 year anniversary. The airline had emailed us the change in time at some point but neither of us had noticed. Entirely our fault but we didn’t know until we got to the airport and they told us the plane was gone. It was about 1.5 hours earlier than we thought. I cried lol. We got another flight a few hours later. Luckily we live 10 minutes from the airport so we just went home and chilled for a bit. We did miss out on a half day of vacation though.
Post by cattledogkisses on Mar 30, 2021 14:18:06 GMT -5
Only connecting flights when the previous flight was delayed.
There was one time when H had to run ahead and have them hold the door for me because I got held up forever in security. I had just had surgery on my leg a few weeks prior and I was in a thigh-to-toe cast and on crutches. There was something in my jeans that set off the detectors, so TSA took me back to a private room and had me take my pants off, which in addition to being embarrassing was not easy in a cast. It ended up being a security tag in my jeans that hadn't been removed, so then I had to get redressed and try to crutch as fast as I could to the gate. I'm still annoyed about it and that was 12 years ago.
Post by seeyalater52 on Mar 30, 2021 14:20:27 GMT -5
Pre-covid I traveled fairly regularly for work and I’ve never missed a flight or a scheduled train (non-commuter), but I’ve had some clooooose calls, especially flying out of Atlanta. I hate that airport with every fiber of my being.
Also if I had a dollar for every poor new colleague who accidentally booked Dulles tickets when flying in or out of DC I’d be able to pay for a whole flight. Brutal when you are flying in just for the day because you’re bound to miss your meetings with the transit time into the city. We warn people about this but it’s actually a really easy mistake to make (and often our travel agency introduces the error which is annoying because our team is literally never flying into Dulles on purpose.)
Funny, I thought she was talking about commuter rails since she said her DH has missed the train plenty since they've been together. lol. Oh well.
Haha. Nope. He doesn’t have a "regular" job so no commute. He traveled a lot pre-COVID for work. That often meant Amtrak and trains in Europe. We’ve been together for over 6 years so plenty of transport for him to miss.
And since COVID we’ve been living apart, so train trip apart from each other (Amtrak), but not seeing each other as much since it’s a pandemic! But he’s still managed to miss the train the past year, of course.
Yes, my husband was slow moving to get up and moving the morning of a flight and we missed it. We also missed a flight with our daughter because we couldn't find her shoes,my husband was tasked with getting everything ready for her the night before so we just had to change her and put on her shoes well he didn't and we missed the flight but really I can't 100% blame him for that one.
Not gonna lie, my partner and I have the type of relationship that if he was moving that slow, I would’ve left before him and made the flight haha.
Funny how whenever we do indeed travel together we’ve never missed a train or flight. What a concept!
Post by sandandsea on Mar 30, 2021 17:26:27 GMT -5
No. I leave with lots of time and waste too much time waiting because I’m early. But the alternative is too stressful for m. Dh has missed lots of things and I totally judge him for it and he deserves it. Punctuality has never been his strength and I’ve learned to live with it and chill a bit.
No, I'm a bit too obsessive about my leisure travel. I think it doesn't help that I don't trust TSA lines. Our home airport is SEA, and it's either a 5 minute breeze or an hour long nightmare, even with pre-check.
Last time we flew out for some reason they told a random group of us we needed to go to a different part of the airport to go through the line, only for us all to be yelled at when we got there that we needed to go back to where we just had been, and some other agent trying to herd us back AGAIN to the section that yelled at us. We were all very WTF about the whole thing and just stopped in the middle and stared at them, and someone else came along and said yeah we did need to be at the first place after all. I have no idea what it was all about, but it wasted a good 15 minutes.
Post by RoxMonster on Mar 30, 2021 18:28:39 GMT -5
I never have missed either, but I have never taken a train before. I have taken the subway in NYC way back in HS on vacation with my family, and I do think we got on the wrong subway once, if that counts?
I also don't fly much. I never have to fly for work, so it's just vacations, and we take a lot of road trips. So I haven't had many opportunities to miss flights.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Mar 30, 2021 18:29:45 GMT -5
I never have because I usually get there about a a day and a half early and try to get an earlier flight. At least i used to do that when they’d make that kind of at-the-airport change for free but I think most airlines charge for that now. But my mom spent the last 25 years of her life being ribbed about that time she was sitting at the airport gate to fly home after her first visit with her first grandchildren (twins) when the incoming flight arrived, disembarked, they cleaned and reloaded the luggage, her flight was announced, boarded, and left without her because she was busy flirting with them, and no one heard the announcements! My sister gets a bit of shit about it sometimes too but she was a new mother of twins so she gets a pass (this was back in the days when anyone could go to the gate area).
Yes, my husband was slow moving to get up and moving the morning of a flight and we missed it. We also missed a flight with our daughter because we couldn't find her shoes,my husband was tasked with getting everything ready for her the night before so we just had to change her and put on her shoes well he didn't and we missed the flight but really I can't 100% blame him for that one.
Not gonna lie, my partner and I have the type of relationship that if he was moving that slow, I would’ve left before him and made the flight haha.
Funny how whenever we do indeed travel together we’ve never missed a train or flight. What a concept!
A friend got all the way to Dulles with her husband and 2 kids and the husband left his passport at home. She and the 2 kids went to Denmark on the original flight and he had to drive home and back the next day with his passport and new flight.
The only time I’ve missed a flight that was not caused by a previous connection was when I sat in a traffic jam for over 2 hours on the way to the airport. Under normal conditions, I would have had a 90 minute wait.
The traffic jam was on he way for me to catch a red eye, so traffic should have been nil.
Post by Dznyprnces on Mar 30, 2021 18:39:53 GMT -5
I missed one flight. I was flying alone with both kids. DH was dropping us off, and we have different ideas about how early we need to get to the airport. Technically, we were in time to make the flight, but the window to load baggage was closed, so they wouldn’t let me check in because they couldn’t get our bags on the flight. We were able to rebook on another flight into a different airport 2 hours later.
I once almost missed a flight. I was again flying alone with both kids. We were at the gate, waiting to board. All of a sudden I realized the gate listed a different flight. They had changed which gate we were leaving from, and somehow I missed the announcement. Luckily I realized it and bolted over to the new gate, and we were the last ones on the plane.
A flight, only once because returning the rental car took hours. Very frustrating and we got the next flight.
Trains are a little easier to miss because I used to commute from LI to NYC. My favorite train was a 7:10 am where I was one of the last stops and then it was a straight bullet to Jamaica. Everyone pretty much fell asleep in that one. The next one was 7:21 but it was a local! So many stops and starts that no one could sleep. So, even missing the 7:10 still got me into NYC on time, it was just a less enjoyable ride. NBD. (Plus I got a breakfast sandwich from the cart next to the station stairs, so not a bad start to my day.) I have always scheduled plenty of time for an Amtrak ride and have not missed one of those trains. I’ve even been so early that I got on the earlier train.
One of my fave missed flight stories was a past coworker who booked a flight out of Chicago Midway, but thought they booked out of O’Hare 🤣 She was quite shocked when the ticket counter at O’Hare told her what was up. in her defense, we were all very young/first job out of college types, and travelled a ton. We never let her live it down however.
Post by shamrockshake on Mar 30, 2021 19:04:30 GMT -5
I used to take the train to/ from school a lot in high school. I’m sure I missed the one I was planning on taking at times but nothing I specifically remember and never as an adult