No, this is not a holiday vacation package of some sort.
I can’t believe this is happening. I checked out of my hotel in Karachi last Thursday and it’s already Saturday and I haven’t reached Manila. I spent the night at Jinnah International Airport (Karachi, Pakistan) waiting for another flight to Bangkok as the scheduled one was canceled and I was not informed. I’ve also resolved to the thought that I will also miss my connecting flight from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Manila the following day.
After waiting for 13 hours, I was able to finally check in with another Thai Airways flight but to my surprise, it wasn’t going to Bangkok but Seeb Int’l Airport at Muscat, Oman. The damn plane was going the opposite way! From the plane, I saw the entire city devastated by what seemed to be lahar flow. Turns out there was a powerful cyclone (Cyclone Gonu) the day before and all flights thru there were affected.
Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Sleeping at the airport is no fun.
After spending almost 8 hours in the plane from Karachi to Oman to Bangkok, we landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport greeted by Thai Airways staff with some more bad news. My alternate connecting flight was also fully booked. They got us a new sked from another airlines, Kuwait Airways, for a later date.
Tired, sleepy and cold, I’m waiting to check-in for our 12 noon flight to Manila. I’m praying really hard nothing unfortunate happens again.
Now, my only worry is whether I’d get my luggage when I arrive at the NAIA airport. Will all that changes in luggage tags, I sure hope I don’t end up losing another one.
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Maybe you shouldn’t go back to Pakistan. You’ve had considerable bad luck on both of your trips there.
Hope you do get your luggage in one piece.
Did they put you in a hotel while waiting for your flight at the very least?
If I understand it correctly, airlines are obligated to do so, especially if the layover exceeds 6 (?) hours.
The last time a similar incident happened to us, I joined a group of Pinoys in haranguing the non-Filipino PAL ground staff in Vancouver. 12 hours later, they were forced to put us in a nearby hotel, but only after an enterprising lady managed to arrange a booking herself.
To be honest, I think you will lose your luggage. Good luck.
I wish it will not happen rick
Naalala ko yung movie : THE TERMINAL
Yung na stuck si Tom Hanks sa New York airport. =P
hmmmm…
brader, gawa ka kaya ng docu? Lapitan mo yung mga passengers dyan and ask them kung blogger sila.. or yung janitor.. kung meron siyang blog.. or the airport manager… =P
MiGs
I hope you have travel insurance which will compensate you for the bump off..
woah. Your having a pretty rough time on your trip. No worry, at leasy you have your laptop with you. If you havent got your laptop, heaven knows what will happen to you. ^_^
Keeo your cool and you can get through all those misfortunes.
Waah, bad trip yan ah, bad luck raining down like… rain. Hehehe. Ingat ka pre, at wag ka na ulit pupunta ng Pakistan! Hehehe.
ayus un MiGs, hehe,
Well, I got back home, luggage intact.
wow.. tough luck abe ah
hehehe… nice Yugs!
Just wanna share one experience when im going back to Manila from a Cagayan De Oro Trip, actually i missed my flight @ 3:20pm so there where no other flights that day for PAL, there is a plane leaving @ 5pm for Cebu pacific. but i need to buy the ticket one way for 6,881php yeah right. when PAL Ticketing office was already close, i need to rush to the Main PAL Office in Divisoria , so went there and learned that my ticket is rediscounted/nonrefundable and no same class available for the next 3days. Sunday na daw magkakaron. wow! not unless i will upgrade my ticket to Business Class. and so thats what i did, ive booked a ticket for the next day @ 0730hours. then Look for another hotel to swamp myself. another problem is i cant sleep, its already 2am and im still wide awake. geezzz… but fortunately i wokeup around 6am on time for my flight got back to manila around 9am.