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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand
Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand
Larry2006-05-27 03:23:16
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had no flight -- and I literally had to YELL at a supervisor to get taken
off the cancelled flight and placed on another one. Unbelievable!) or an
airline where the agents will go through your trip and tell you how many
miles you'll be receiving, and then find out after you go that everything
FOUR separate agents told you in the U.S. was a complete lie.
I suppose with all the problems United has given us, I shouldn't have
taken them, but they were the cheapest available, and getting the frequent
flyer mileage isn't, I suppose, all that important in the grand scheme of
things. Still, it really peeves me when a company like United never stands
by their word, time and time again. I'm relating these incidents to you to
warn those of you out there to avoid the "friendly" skies. United isn't a
good operation to trust your travel to. Next time, I'll just pay the extra
few dollars and take another carrier -- ANY other carrier but United.
WE'RE OFF!
Knowing how United is, I wasn't the least bit surprised that the 10:00pm
departure time was delayed an hour. Why? Because one of the passengers
needed an oxygen tank, and no one on board could figure out where to put it.
(I was later told by a Red Cross volunteer that there is a special place on
each plane, and everyone who works on the aircraft is supposed to know where
it is). Typical United. It took them a full hour until they could figure
it out.
Making things even more interesting was taking United on the return
flight back to the U.S. from Sydney. Out on the RUNWAY, the pilot stopped,
and announced that something wasn't right with the plane. We sat in our
seats for an hour while we watched maintenance crews drive up in jeeps and
check the plane out. An hour later, the pilot said he was satisfied, and we
took off.
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