Just wondering, what happened when you missed the flight. Did they rebook you and how long did you have to wait?
we missed our connection at JFK.
I'd left us 3 hours as i always do, but there was a slow down at JFK - union action....they were delivering suitcases one by one to the belt...and that was only after waiting for more than an hour for the first suitcase to show up.
So almost everyone on the plane missed their connection.
When we got through customs, i immediately found the airline rep.
There was a line a mile long (it was 747), but i just went to the front of the line and gave her my name.
She said, "oh thanks for coming up - we've been waiting for you, follow me".
so my daughter and i raced behind the airline rep.
It turned out we'd missed the last flight out of kennedy, so they put us on a bus.
A HUGE bus with only my daughter, me, another mom and her son - and sent us over to la guardia.
as we approached the terminal, the driver said "you have to RUN when i get you there. You have no time to make your flight and it's the last flight out of la guardia".
So we did as he said.
crossed through security and made a mad dash for the gate where they assigned us seats and put us on the plane.
2 seconds later, the door closed and we were off.
if we hadn't made that flight, i don't know what would have happened.
The airline that arranged everything was the one we'd been on trans-atlantic.
That's the importance of having one ticket for both legs. So that they're responsible for getting you to your final destination.
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