What's the most fun you've had in an irrops?
Jul 24, 2015, 9:27 am
#46
Join Date: Sep 2012
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But agreed, removed...
Jul 27, 2015, 9:12 pm
#48
In Memoriam, FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Durham, NC (RDU/GSO/CLT)
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A couple of stories come to mind.
- Growing up I had very strict parents. My brother and I, however, have always been really close, he's a year younger than me. We must have been about 8 and 9 and we were sent down to North Carolina to see our grandparents. On the way back, our GSO-LGA flight got delayed. Now, my parents would never let us misbehave in public but hey, they weren't around. So my brother and I ran all over the airport until my Grandparents found us and said "other people are asking if we got you guys hopped up on chocolate or something!". Oh well, it was fun while it lasted
- Several years ago a friend and I went to Las Vegas on a daytrip from Phoenix. This was back when US still had a 11:59 PM departure LAS-PHX. It got delayed an hour then oversold and we each took a $200 voucher to take the 7 AM flight. They had no hotels so we spent the night at LAS. We had the whole place to ourselves and it was great fun talking and walking around the deserted concourses.
- Growing up I had very strict parents. My brother and I, however, have always been really close, he's a year younger than me. We must have been about 8 and 9 and we were sent down to North Carolina to see our grandparents. On the way back, our GSO-LGA flight got delayed. Now, my parents would never let us misbehave in public but hey, they weren't around. So my brother and I ran all over the airport until my Grandparents found us and said "other people are asking if we got you guys hopped up on chocolate or something!". Oh well, it was fun while it lasted
- Several years ago a friend and I went to Las Vegas on a daytrip from Phoenix. This was back when US still had a 11:59 PM departure LAS-PHX. It got delayed an hour then oversold and we each took a $200 voucher to take the 7 AM flight. They had no hotels so we spent the night at LAS. We had the whole place to ourselves and it was great fun talking and walking around the deserted concourses.
Jul 28, 2015, 11:41 am
#49
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Not your normal irrops, but I was stuck in Copenhagen after 9/11. SAS put up a bunch of us downtown, and we had a blast touring around the city, etc. One night we went to Tivoli thinking "this doesn't seem quite right with what's going on in the world" but it kept us occupied and not thinking about the folk back home every second. (Or glued to the TV watching the same footage over and over and over.)
Jul 28, 2015, 1:46 pm
#50
Join Date: Jul 2014
Programs: BAEC, Flying Blue, Eurobonus
Posts: 180
Loved it.
The Shetlander's knew how to have a good time also.
Jul 28, 2015, 3:14 pm
#51
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Kaiserslautern
Programs: UA G 1.9MM, HH Diamond, Global Entry
Posts: 439
In the summer of 2012 I was booked on the island hopper HNL-MAJ-KWA. I checked in, got my boarding pass, then the agent came back to me and said UA was bypassing KWA. So, I was "stuck" in Oahu for two days waiting on the next flight.