American Airlines is a No-Listening Zone! by Lois Geller
I fly a lot and I understand that planes get delayed, gates get changed and things happen.
But this was ridiculous.
We were booked for a May 27th flight to Calgary from Ft. Lauderdale with a layover in Dallas. The first leg was canceled on May 26th and the wonderful travel agent (Marlin) in Alberta re-booked us through Chicago O’Hare with a three hour and forty minute layover. Quite a feat on a long weekend.
The flight to O’Hare was fine, except an older man collapsed and we were afraid he was going to die. When we got to O’Hare, our flight wasn’t on the Departures Board. We somehow found out that it was an American Eagle plane (small, too small for a 3+ hour flight) and they sent us to a basement gate where we waited for an hour or so before the first of two gate changes with all the relevant gates far apart.
The scene at the last gate, G11, reminded me of the evacuation of Baku in the original Lost Horizons movie, the one with Ronald Coleman. For starters, we shared our waiting area with a lot of nice people trying to get to Atlanta (and they never made it, not that night,anyway.) There were lots of couples with small children, other couples from Europe hoping for a vacation, a woman in a wheelchair â
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