Sunday, December 1, 2024

ST LUCIA DELAYED….STILL!!!

NO JOKE (DELTA)
Okay. On Friday we left our place in Collegeville PA. We dropped the pooch off at a friend’s apartment. We had dinner and drove to the airport motel where we stayed to catch an early flight on Saturday morning. By Saturday early evening we were supposed to be drinking rum drinks by the pool.

Here it is Sunday afternoon we have gotten as far as Atlanta.

Saturday morning there was a power outage in Philadelphia and DELTA booked us on the next days’ flight. We spent the day looking at Route 95, but in hindsight we should have muscled through to get to at least Atlanta. Why? Because our DELTA connection which should have been 2 hours was whittled down to 43 minutes. We were told we could make it as the gate we were to arrive at was next to the departure gate. Even our boarding passes said this.

Well, the flight’s departure was delayed from 5:30am and moved to 7am. Still plenty of time to walk next door, but DELTA had issues refueling and baggage loading issues and we left 45 minutes late. AND, to top it off DELTA changed the departure gate for St. Lucia from terminal A to terminal F on the other end of the airport while we were in the air, and before we even began our approach in Atlanta they were boarding out connecting flight. We only had three minutes to spare when we finally landed. Here we are in "Hot-lanta" overnight. There is only one flight to St. Lucia per day.

The old joke about DELTA Airlines is it stands for: Don’t Even Leave The Airport, I just never thought I’d experience it. This article is not meant as a rebuke of the airline, but this has been a bad joke.

We hopefully will get to St. Lucia Monday early evening, 4 days after we left our house. Our two-day pre-Sandals resort stay has been lost completely, and we can’t even slide those days to the end, because we’re only home for five days before we head off to England for the holidays.

I know, I know….First world problems.

Wish us luck.

Love Janet and greg

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