So no unruly children or their parents for that matter on the 11th of May, just some unpredictable weather...
Wednesday morning we arrived into O'Hare from Grand Rapids racing a major thunder storm. No sooner did we arrive and unload the passengers, did the sky darken and start to rumble. We were supposed to do another round trip to Grand Rapids at 7am, but we didn't leave the gate untill almost 9am. Once we got back to Grand rapids, we were stuck on the ground on the runway for almost an hour and a half with a full boat of passengers.
Now one would think that this would make for a difficult situation, but here comes the kicker... Because we were stuck on the ground for so long on the runway, the tower in GRR had 10 pepperoni pizzas delivered out to our airplane for all of the passengers. Yes that's right pepperoni pizzas! This was the first time in my career that I have had to do a meal service. In spite of the delay, the passengers were extremely patient and kind while we were on the ground.
I think that we didn't even get back to ORD untill 12:45pm, over three hours late. So instead of getting done at 2pm, we didn't even get back to O'Hare from Omaha untill 4:30 pm, well past the time I should have been at home watching TV in my PJ's.
3 comments:
... now, is that cool, that they had the pizzas brought out for the passengers ..? what normally happens in a similar situation ... meal vouchers for the snack bars at the terminal ..?
... Grand Rapids is a homey feelin' town ... sorta like a slower Lansing ... that is where I live now, but I am born and raised Detroiter ...
Wow. That's a new one!
Oh, and in response to markonit's questions about what would normally happen. Nothing. Generally airlines, including ours, follow this formula: Our fault (mechanical, no crew, etc) = we pay Not our fault (weather, air traffic control) = we don't pay. That also goes for hotels as well.
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