Okay, its about time I posted an entry!
Its about my trip to New England, and how not to fly. Airlines price fares using yield based formulas, which result in a premium charged for flights with close connections, as you spend less time in transit. And now, you can pay that premium, but you then risk missing your connections if there are delays. This happened to me twice last weekend.
I started out mighty pleased that I had only an hour to wait between connections. But then the nightmare began. There was bad weather in Las Vegas which somehow only delayed flights approaching Las Vegas, so I had to spend the night there. Luckily my hotel was right on the strip, so I ended up visiting MGM grand and a local nightclub, not bad for an unplanned trip. I ended up in Boston 10 hours late, killing my sightseeing plans for the day.
I flew back from Portland, ME, as I had a wedding to attend in Maine. My airplane had mechanical trouble, and the tiny airport didn't have an engineer on duty, so they had to page one and get him out of bed early Monday am. It took him over fifty minutes to get to the airport, and then 10 minutes or so to fix the problem. This resulted in me having to spend all day at the airport in Cincinnati, Ohio.
And thats 41 hours of transit time for 12 hours of flying time! Maybe my next post will be about the trip itself :)
