Originally Posted by Dick H
My use of "slight delay" was facetious. The NWA web site said it was "unscheduled maintenance". Quite an understatement. I heard the tail end of the incident on my fire dept. scanner, but I thought they said it was a generator. A bit more than that, obviously.
I will be on that flight in 3 weeks, thus my interest. How did the rest of it go and what did they do for you? A hotel for the night, of course.
I hope someone wasn't waiting for you at Narita. When I lived in Tokyo my daughter's flight was 7 hours late, but I had called before leaving for Narita since it was more than 2 hours from my house.
Good luck on the rest of your trip.
Dick
Well, we were on our way to Hong Kong and I had pre-paid our hotel in advance via PL. Knowing what I know from experience (and through the experience of others on FT), I didn't want to spend the night in Portland like most of the other passengers (too many other things could go wrong, etc.). There wasn't going to be enough capacity on the next days flight so I insisted on being reaccomodated on another carrier (Cathay Pacific via SFO) as soon as possible. I wouldn't have wanted to have been a non-frequent flier in this position (there were just 4 agents at the podium to work with about 140 passengers and it took my agent about 90 minutes ("Dee" at PDX was a blessing to work with) to get me taken care of. They were going to give us a free night in Portland but I took time off specifically to take the A330 to Asia (have taken it to Europe four or five times) and didn't want to hang out there.
As long as I get the mileage bonus I was expecting (the 7,500 miles as promised on NWA.COM for transit to Japan/China) as well as all of the EQM's and my Platinum bonus miles, I will be happy. This is going to be the biggest mileage earner of the year for me, if I don't get the EQM's I am not going to requalify for Plat 2006.
I will let you know how it goes........Meanwhile, we are getting ready to start our second day in Hong Kong.