I had to fly to Las Vegas to do a site visit this weekend. It was the trip from h*ll.

The nightmare started on Friday evening in San Francisco. The airport was fogged in so flights were delayed for up to 10 hours. My original flight scheduled for 6:30 pm was delayed until 11:30 pm. Luckily, the Red Carpet Club person was able to book me on a confirmed seat on an earlier flight. Unluckily, when I boarded, someone was in my seat already. The flight attendant told me to wait right there (I was in the middle of the aisle and in the middle of the plane). It was terribly embarassing to have a completely full plane staring at me since I was holding up the flight. Then the gate agent came on the plane to tell one of the passengers that they would have to get off the flight. I don't know if this was because I had a confirmed seat or was a PremEx member. Of course, the other passenger didn't want to leave the flight and they began arguing. More embarassment. Finally, the gate agent found out that the passenger wouldn't get off the plane because her friend was also on the plane. The gate agent ended up taking them both off the flight and I got my seat. We finally make it into LAS 4 hours later than my original arrival time.

My flight back was delayed by an hour since the gate was occupied by the previous flight that was leaving late. The FA on this flight was very helpful and kept updating me on my connection in San Francisco. I ended up arriving at gate 68 and needing to get to gate 82 with an 18 minute connection time. I was thankful for my long legs as a hoofed it over to the gate. I'm happy to make it and find out that I was upgraded to Business. Unfortunately, I have a 5 year old seated next to me who decides that he needs to pretend to shoot everyone on the plane (loud sound effects and all). He does this for 2 whole hours of my flight back to HNL. His father sits there playing with his computer and does nothing. I wanted to muzzle the kid. On top of all this the flight attendant must have been having a very bad day since she is not very nice at all.

I'm glad to be home.