rb2k
Jul 2, 12, 5:42 am
Hey, here's a little story of joy and wonder:
I had the experience of taking a flight on June 30th while a leap second (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second) was introduced.
Turns out that the Check-In system of Airfrance ("Amadeus"?), just as a lot of other Java-based programs, didn't like the concept and decided to go down.
I had to stand in the non-moving check-in line for about 3-4 hours at Boston Logan. They brought a little bit of water to the line, sadly no snacks though.
After sitting on the plane for a while, we got told that we had to delay a few more minutes because somebody apparently had luggage checked in but wasn't on board of the airplane.
Instead of the connecting 12:45 to Paris I had to switch to the 16:00 one.
No time to get any food at CDG either...
For this, Air France sent out an email telling me that I'll receive a whooping 1500 extra miles :-/
Would you say it's worth complaining?
I know that they do hand out vouchers that are actually worth something. I fly from STR->BOS and back 2-4 times a year, but that is hardly enough to actually collect enough miles to do anything useful with them.
I had the experience of taking a flight on June 30th while a leap second (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second) was introduced.
Turns out that the Check-In system of Airfrance ("Amadeus"?), just as a lot of other Java-based programs, didn't like the concept and decided to go down.
I had to stand in the non-moving check-in line for about 3-4 hours at Boston Logan. They brought a little bit of water to the line, sadly no snacks though.
After sitting on the plane for a while, we got told that we had to delay a few more minutes because somebody apparently had luggage checked in but wasn't on board of the airplane.
Instead of the connecting 12:45 to Paris I had to switch to the 16:00 one.
No time to get any food at CDG either...
For this, Air France sent out an email telling me that I'll receive a whooping 1500 extra miles :-/
Would you say it's worth complaining?
I know that they do hand out vouchers that are actually worth something. I fly from STR->BOS and back 2-4 times a year, but that is hardly enough to actually collect enough miles to do anything useful with them.