We nearly missed our flight returning home from Seattle. Well, actually only three of us—my two kids and I—made it onto the plane. We left my husband behind in Seattle.I thought the plane left at 7 p.m. when it really left at 5 p.m. I realized my mistake at about 3:30 p.m. when we were taking family photos at Snoqualmie Falls, a good hour from Sea-Tac and still needed to return my friend's house where we were staying, pack our suitcases, fill the rental car with gas, and return the car. Argh!
As we sped through light traffic to the airport, I called Virgin Airlines, panicked. "What do we do?" I said to the agent on the phone.
Honestly, I had never been late for a flight. I'm one of those who arrives 2 hours early.
It turned out that the 5 p.m. flight was the last Virgin flight to San Francisco that day and the agent said sternly, "You need to do everything possible to make the flight."
We realized we had no chance of getting on the plane if we returned the rental car, so the plan was for my husband to drop off the kids and me so we would make the flight, and then he'd return the car and hope for the best.
My kids and I ran to the ticket agent--because we had luggage to check. I immediately apologized for our tardiness as I've always found people who arrive late for their planes just plain rude.
It made me feel better when I realized we weren't the last ones on our flight to check in--a panicked man arrived at the counter minutes after us. We ran to security--thank goodness the line was short. And then we ran to our gate and got right on the plane.
I told the flight attendant that I was hoping my husband might still have a chance of making it and she said, "Honey, we ain't holding this plane for your husband." And then I felt really stupid for saying anything.
We sat parked for awhile...and I just gazed at the aisle...hoping my husband might make it. But then we started rolling. Darn! He was stuck in Seattle for the night.
Have you ever missed a flight? Why? How did you deal with the situation?
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