Wednesday, January 27, 2010

TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY

I am beginning to think that every time we book a trip where we are going to fly, the weather and transportation gods make sure we won’t get there and return without lots of trouble.
We were scheduled to leave on Allegiant airlines on Sunday, the 17th of January to go to Las Vegas. We were to leave in the evening. Late in the afternoon we were informed on line that the flight was cancelled and that we were to leave at noon on Saturday. We changed our hotel reservation and went to the airport Saturday at 10 AM. The plane finally arrived full of passengers who had to spend an extra day in Las Vegas because of the fog here. We boarded the plane about 6:30 PM and arrived in Las Vegas around 11:30 PM their time.
It rained all the time we were in Las Vegas.
We were to leave Las Vegas on Friday at 3:25 PM. We turned the rental car in, and proceeded to the airport. We, along with a plane load of people sat at the gate ready to board our plane when, about 2:PM They announced that our flight to Cedar Rapids had been cancelled due to fog at home. Since the cancellation was due to weather the airline did not have to compensate us for out extra overnight accommodations. They did give us a list of hotels to call for rooms. The least expensive place we checked on was Ballys on the strip. We stayed there overnight and started back to the airport Saturday morning. They informed us that there was still fog in Cedar Rapids but they would try to land here or land at an alternate airport and wait for the fog to lift. Luckily when we arrived over Cedar Rapids there was a 15 minute window where the fog lifted and we landed without incident.
We are scheduled to fly to Florida on February 28. Hopefully, the weather gods will let us go and come without trouble.

2 comments:

Liz said...

I had been hoping you would post again soon!!

Those weather problems don't sound like fun! Hopefully we don't run into too much of that on our trip to Nashville this weekend... :)

love you!

Kathy said...

I have been hoping you would post too! Oh man, sounds like another adventure for the two of you. Glad you made it there and back, too bad about the weather. Hopefully your trip to Florida will be uneventful travel wise :)