Worst Air Travel delay(s) experience???

OK, what's your worst travel experience (as far as delays)?

We travelled back from Rome, Italy to San Jose CA and had every conceivable delay. Computers at check-in in Rome were down. All flights delayed 2 hours. One guy almost got in a fight with another while waiting in line. A cop (perched on top of a kiosk) w/ an Uzi quelled that fight pretty quick. When we got to JFK, the computer's were down in customs. Took about 3 out of our 4 hours of layover in JFK to make it to the San Jose gate. Only reason we made it that fast to our gate is that they let everybody with toddler's and babies (we had our 1-year old son w/us) go to the front of the line. By the time we left the gate, we hit the Europe flight rush hour at JFK (25 planes in front of us on runway). Finally made it to San Jose but the arm that connects the plane to the terminal wasn't working so we had to park at another gate (no big deal compared to other delays but still added another 15 minutes).

When I was a kid, my sister and I were supposed to fly to Denver. We got to the airport only to be turned away. All flights were cancelled due to lots of snow in Denver. No idea when they were going to be up and running so we went home. We called a day or two later, and they were flying. We got to the airport only to be told that they were not taking unaccompanied minors since they didn't know if they were going to get to land in Denver. They might have to go to Salt Lake City. That would've been useful on the phone. Anyway, called again another day or so later. All flights are running. Children okay. Finally.

On the upside, due to all the delays and cancellations, they had to give us what was available. So, we got first class.

i was in nyc w/ my mom and we missed our flight out of JFK (we actually hadnt missed it...we just made it there too late) and then we got another flight back to fl out of lagurdia but then that flight got canceled and it was the last flight of the day into the airport we were flying in to so we had to spend the night in a crappy hotel and i missed school the next day(i really didnt care about that though lol)

KLM is the worst airline

Until you have spent the night in an airport, or multiple nights because of bad weather, consider yourself lucky.

Although if you do end up stuck in an airport check out: http://www.sleepinginairports.net/

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Chris Christensen
Amateur Traveler podcast
http://AmateurTraveler.com