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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