What I’ve learnt about flying on school holidays
Headed to Melbourne airport yesterday for a 5pm flight to Sydney, arriving two hours earlier, as requested, due to heavy volume.
Ten minutes before being dropped off, with two young kids, received a text message from Virgin to say the flight had been cancelled.
Mayhem in the terminal as you’d expect. And no conversations were yielding any joy.
Instead of the 5pm flight, we had been booked on the next available – a flight the next morning that went via Hobart, with a three-hour stopover.
Who’s running this show? The end of the NSW school holidays should trigger some sort of campaign to deal with extra traffic.
What’s the worst problem you’ve had lately with flights or other travel bookings?
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My Wife had to go to a funeral in Sydney last week...It was a Virgin fly in the morning and back late afternoon to Brisbane..a simple booking you would think! But of course wasn't! Taxi to Mascot for the flight back, delayed two hours due to 4 delays, eventually boarded, only to be disembarked after half an hour and told the flight was now canceled due to lack of crew! Whaaaat...Had to find her own hotel and could only get a 6pm flight back the next day..Why take your money when they can't get the crew to fly the plane? Woeful Virgin! Woeful!