This has been the trip from hell. Nothwest is the WORST airline EVER. And this thing they call an airport?
UGH!
Can you believe I am still NOT in San Jose?
First off, the flight was delayed yesterday 4 hours due to weather conditions. Ok. I can live with that. But the airline, instead of taking measures to ensure people got to where they were going or stayed in NYC until further notice, they took us hostage in the airplane FOR FOUR HOURS.
Yes people.
I was with hundreds of other passengers for fours hours on a Northwest Airlines airplane. Four hours which they refused to find a way to get us out of the airplane. Four hours they refused to get people to a non NWA gate so they could be at least out of an airplane and on the ground. Four hours which they decided were necessary so they would not have to go through the extra cost of customer service.
Not only that. The flight was supposed to leave at 5:30pm. It's 9:45pm and instead of getting to a gate as instructed, the pilot decides to depart to Minneapolis.
The asshole says something to the effect : "We could wait another hour and a half for one of hours gates to open up or we could fly. We're flying."
Hurrah, right? No.
You see, we get to this wretched airport and ALL CONNECTING FLIGHTS ARE EITHER CANCELLED OR HAVE LEFT. And with a sweet innocent look on their faces the crew kept telling us : "Well, you can sleep on a chair until 9am tomorrow".
Excuse me?
After 2 hours and with the prospect of flying through a storm or tornado, I asked to get out of the plane. Several people asked to be deplane. Not only did the bitch stewardesses look at me and tell me, "well, if you are having problems, we can ask someone to sedate" but they think it's ok to stay on the fucking tarmac for 4 hours. Oh well, you know, to have you get out of the plane, everybody would have to be let go and that would cost us.
Excuse me.
I was so fury I literally cried. Here the airline thinks it's acceptable to take people hostage "due to the weather". The parks service thinks it's statistically ok if a child dies under a tree "due to the weather". We have a government that thinks it's statistically OK to have hundreds of people die and have tens of thousands of people displace and indigent after Hurricane Katrina because, you know, it's "due to the weather".
So we get here after being taken hostage by Northwest Airlines and now they want people to sleep on the floor of the airport because, you know, they don't really have to be held accoutable "due to the weather".
And motherfucker Americans let themselves be walked over like that. Pregnant women. Nursing women. Elderly couples and hundreds of silent lambs let themselves be walked all over last night thanks the incompetency of Nortwest Airlines.
I. WAS. FURIOUS.
I asked for a supervisor. I told the woman, look, I know the weather was bad but lord, I could have stayed in NYC and left in the morning. Now you're asking me to either sleep on the floor of the airport pay hundreds of dollars for an hotel room when I could have been deplane in NYC?
The woman gave me a hotel voucher. Mind you, it looked like the backdrop of those porno American Apparel ads, but still, it was a hotel voucher.
So if you bitch about it, you get it. Out of their own volition though, they would have never offered people a decent place to stay.
Northwest Airlines filed for bankruptcy recently. I hope they go to hell.
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