Warning! This Blog is a rant! :)
All week people have been telling us to check the weather and flight status before we leave on Sunday, just as well I did! We got up nice and early packed the remaining bits and checked the flight status to see this.....
It was an extremely stressful morning I have to say! I spent about 4 hours on the phone (2 of those hours I was on hold to United Airlines!) I rang St Louis airport to check as I wasn't sure of the validity of the website I was checking and I was told "Well it's only raining here, so you'll have to check with O'Hare Airport"..... Eh? Are you for real? You can't tell me if a flight is leaving your airport or not? This lady then proceeded to tell me that according to GOOGLE the flight was indeed cancelled! Yes that's right, I said GOOGLE!! >:-|
I then rang Aer Lingus who confirmed that their flight to Dublin was leaving Chicago but was just delayed and offered to reschedule the entire booking for tomorrow, I said I'd leave it to see if there was any change on the flight from St Louis as the storm was moving north. There wasn't, so I rang Aer Lingus again to reschedule only to get through to the most unhelpful person I think I've ever come across who ended up telling me I need to ring United Airlines to reschedule and hung up on me!! Our United Airlines flight was a connector flight for 4 different companies as were many United Airlines flights today so as you can imagine the hold time was insane! After two hours on hold with United I chanced Aer Lingus again and with the luck of god I got through to the first person I had been speaking to and she rescheduled us for tomorrow, but we now only have 2 hours to get through Chicago as that was the only flight left out of St Louis tomorrow!
On the way out here we were left waiting for Dylan's special needs buggy in Chicago for over a half an hour while everyone else was greeted with their wheelchairs, that buggy almost didn't stop in Chicago it was destined to go Dublin straight to St Louis and we almost had to carry Dylan, Deryn and bags through Chicago Airport, but I said I'd let that one slide, sorry I did now!
Through all of the commotion today Lady Luck was somehow on my side as I checked all this before I left for the airport and we were able to just stay at the hotel, the room we are in wasn't booked for tonight so we didn't even have to switch rooms :)
I am now hoping the next blog will be from the Emerald Isle (I may have spoke too soon yesterday!)
Missouri, I believe you're known as the Show Me state..... Can you Show Me the way out please? :)
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