My 13+ Hour Flight Delay…

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: October 6, 2014

25 comments

I’ll have the full details tomorrow, but ouch. My flight was originally scheduled for 12:20AM, and is now scheduled to depart at 1:30PM.

Etihad-Flight-Delay

Not sure what’s worse:

A delay that long
That they didn’t even spell the name of the destination city correctly
Being called a “pussy” and being told to “go f*ck myself” after trying to break up a pissing match between two guys in line who wanted to demonstrate their masculinity by out-cussing one another over what ultimately amounted to nothing

Fun times, and lots more details tomorrow!

On the plus side, now this changed from a nighttime flight to a daytime flight, so at least I can enjoy the meal service more… oh wait. 😉

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Juergen Guest

October 7, 2014, 11:51 am

@ Lucky - Thanks for the reply. Sorry for being so anal, but today's world is so internationalized that you can't really judge the book by its cover. I've been living in Korea for 12 years (orig. from Switzerland) and am married to a Korean, but I am asked whether I am here for business or pleasure at least once every week (!), which do I find irritating sometimes.

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Juergen Guest

October 7, 2014, 11:23 am

@ Lucky - I can hardly believe a Korean yelling something like that in English, let alone in such a spontaneous manner. Are you sure he's like yourself, a dual citizen?

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Scott Guest

October 7, 2014, 5:57 am

You've been told twice in recent time to go f$ck yourself. Maybe it's time start minding your own business. Or is ad revenue down and you need clickbait?

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concorde02 Guest

October 7, 2014, 4:41 am

I am wondering, these guys who tell you to go f yourself, are they the ones that English is their first language?? flying from ICN to AUH??

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baccarat_guy New Member

October 7, 2014, 2:03 am

@lucky, you know when you said this "My travels have been so seamless lately. I really don’t remember the last time I’ve had a major delay. I’ve flown over 600,000 miles since the beginning of last year, and don’t actually remember a major delay in that time period. That’s amazing, and it’s not something I put any thought into until I had a flight which didn’t go smoothly. – Traveling longhaul is so much easier than shorthaul. Perhaps related to the above, a vast majority of my flying the past two years or so has been longhaul. While jetlag sucks, longhaul flying seems to rarely have any problems." on the 29th of August; you were definitely going to have a long-haul delay within 60 days. :-)

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