2008. Nothing too exciting, but travelling from Las Vegas to Rapid City, South Dakota, was stuck in Denver for 7 hours after missing the connection.
Managed to see the Champions League final between on the TV (in Moscow between Man United and Chelsea), using the Food vouchers from Frontier, in the bar where the barman put the football on the bigger screen for us to watch.
Oh, and after we were re-routed to United, our bags weren't.
Now lost baggage at Heathrow may be one thing, but at Rapid City it was something else.
As the last Frontier flight had left for the day, there wasn't any of their staff to see. Yet that wasn't a problem, as the guy who worked for North West Airlines dealt with it.
"We all help each other out here" he told us. And true to his word, he set about first on his terminal, then on to Frontier.
OK, they couldn't find the bags on the systems, but assured us they would turn up on the next Frontier flight in an hour, and we should head off to the hotel, and they'd get them out to us. "That's what happens here"
And lo and behold, that is exactly what happened.
To add to the IRROPS tale, we did the trip to Rushmore. It was fogged in for 2 days. All that way not to see it? No.
On the morning of departure, we managed a taxi out to see it as the last of the fog cleared, and dashed back to pick up the bags and out to the airport. Job done!
The bags also missed the next connection in Denver to Chicago - at least we made it, having to run from one end of the Terminal to the other to make it!
Bags turned up on the next flight.
