Originally Posted by
JordanDemarco
Hiya
What a dreadful experience. I am very sorry to hear about this, but what you describe is not that uncommon at US airports. I arrive at ORD T5 about 10-15 times in an average year, and it's never good in the afternoons from an operational perspective, and then there are some real cocky, uneducated DB's working there too, which doesn't help.
With regard to your experience w/ AA and the hotel, in the US, unless there is a mechanical problem with the aircraft, or unless you hold top tier status with your airline, you are not getting a free hotel room for an overnight delay - full stop.
Let me start of by saying i am from the UK with a British passport but i am Indian, and hey we indians look the same as the profile of terrorists even though we're from a different country but hey it's okay, am i am fully aware as a 28 year old i deserve some extra attention, i don't really mind this. However, customs at Chicago really took me to a by gone era from the 70's in the way they spoke to my family and treated us.
You may be Indian, you may be male, you may be twenty eight, but you DO NOT deserve any extra attention for these reasons alone. It is my opinion that taking the position that you do deserve extra attention puts civil rights back a good forty years for those of us who were born in Britain of either mixed Eurasian or Asian heritage.
To make my point, it might interest you to know that a good number of the individuals working at CBP at ORD have origins in parts of Europe that contributed significant troops to Hitler's army in the 1930's, but that doesn't mean you should suspect them of being former Nazi's.
Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
Are you British too ? That's as classic a case of understatement I've seen in a long time.
Understatement would have been something along the lines of - "I am sorry that you were slightly inconvenienced in Chicago during your trip to Orlando".