Check out this epic video of two passengers trying to get the attention of the pilots after missing a flight:
I’m not sure whether my favorite part is the onlooker casually observing that she thinks they missed their flight, or that the guy yells “I have a card.”
Though it still has nothing on the lady that missed her flight at Hong Kong International Airport:
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Even if you're sympathetic to their real or imagined plight, don't you think they should have talked to a gate agent, not pounded on the windows and yelled at the pilots who can't hear them?
Empathy anyone? Does that even exist. We have NO idea the circumstances that caused their delay, or their eventual destination (they could be desperate because they've now missed a crucial flight in a lengthy journey), who really knows. I don't find this "entertaining" at all. Agree w/Parag above. If it were my parents, I wouldn't be laughing. Again, empathy anyone?
I know a woman who actually got the Southwest captain to get out of the cockpit and come into the boarding area to find out what was happening. The gate agent was pissed and she said she would report the incident. Don't know if she did, but the woman and her family were allowed to board. True story.
I witnessed a near identical, though not as over-the-top, situation at EWR. I was flying from LIT to DCA, transferring in EWR. I was at the gate waiting to board my flight to Washington. I was happily watching a Q800 (beautiful plane) bound for Hartford being pushed back from the adjacent gate. Then I heard that distinctive click-click click-click noise of a woman trying to run in high heels. She was lugging an oversized purse, a briefcase and a carry-on bag, all the while gasping "Hold the plane! Hold the plane!" Apparently she was suppose to be on that flight to Hartford. She runs up to the windows, daintily taps on the glass and motions to the pilot to come back. It was all absurdly comical and, yes, I did indeed laugh as did many others. I did not have any sympathy for her; on the contrary, I felt a good deal of contempt. She lost me when I saw the huge purse AND the briefcase AND the carry-on bag. She really expected a plane to return to the gate just for her, and thus potentially inconveniencing all the passengers who made it on time? What selfish audacity! We have all been in the situation where we've missed a connecting flight. You just suck it up, make other arrangements and not make a ridiculous spectacle out of yourself. I miss the days of people demonstrating civility and dignity while traveling.
@Rohit - if the flight was that important then they should have showed up way earlier. Same deal if you don't fly often. Expect things to go wrong, show up early.
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