Weary travel morning
This morning was a weary travel morning. Last night started the first real snow fall for the Green Bay area. The drive into the airport wasn't too bad, everyone must have been running late or stayed home, the roads were mostly empty.
The weather didn't seem to be causing any issues at the airport, other than my socks gettting wet going through security ;)
Once we got on the plane, all was fine until a little after we were supposed to be pushing back. Finally after some arbitrary time had expired we got an update from the cockpit that the Primary radio had failed. They were on the horn with operations and they were going to try and "reboot" the plane to get the radio / navigation back on line. This did not work, so they were going to ring up the contracted off-site maintenance guy and have him do the all famed five minutes to swap the secondary and primary radios so that we would then be "legal" to fly. Which we all know, it never takes just five minutes, it takes 20 minutes to do the paperwork alone.
Once that was finally fixed, we pushed back, with the warning about deicing. However, there was one extra caveat once we go to the deicing area, we had to wait for the one and only deicing truck to finish with the other planes. We were second or third in line. It would be 20-30 minutes before the truck would make it to us. Then once we got sprayed we would have to hurry up and take off before the deicing expired.
While waiting for the whole deicing process we were finally offered beverages on the RJ, quite unusual. We were offered complementary "Adult Drinks" first thing in the morning. Most people took coffee, a few people took them up on the "Adult Drinks".
We finally made it to Detroit a goold couple of hours late, which now seems to be an issue for Hertz. The voided out my reservation, so when I got to the Gold Board, my name wasn't on it; though the driver had my name in his gizmo. I had to go into the building and find out what was going on. The ladies at the desk were agrevated that the "system" had voided it out already and had pulled the vehicle out of the parking spot. So we started the process over from the start.
Once I was on the road from the airport, it was pretty smooth sailing all the way to the customer site.
The weather didn't seem to be causing any issues at the airport, other than my socks gettting wet going through security ;)
Once we got on the plane, all was fine until a little after we were supposed to be pushing back. Finally after some arbitrary time had expired we got an update from the cockpit that the Primary radio had failed. They were on the horn with operations and they were going to try and "reboot" the plane to get the radio / navigation back on line. This did not work, so they were going to ring up the contracted off-site maintenance guy and have him do the all famed five minutes to swap the secondary and primary radios so that we would then be "legal" to fly. Which we all know, it never takes just five minutes, it takes 20 minutes to do the paperwork alone.
Once that was finally fixed, we pushed back, with the warning about deicing. However, there was one extra caveat once we go to the deicing area, we had to wait for the one and only deicing truck to finish with the other planes. We were second or third in line. It would be 20-30 minutes before the truck would make it to us. Then once we got sprayed we would have to hurry up and take off before the deicing expired.
While waiting for the whole deicing process we were finally offered beverages on the RJ, quite unusual. We were offered complementary "Adult Drinks" first thing in the morning. Most people took coffee, a few people took them up on the "Adult Drinks".
We finally made it to Detroit a goold couple of hours late, which now seems to be an issue for Hertz. The voided out my reservation, so when I got to the Gold Board, my name wasn't on it; though the driver had my name in his gizmo. I had to go into the building and find out what was going on. The ladies at the desk were agrevated that the "system" had voided it out already and had pulled the vehicle out of the parking spot. So we started the process over from the start.
Once I was on the road from the airport, it was pretty smooth sailing all the way to the customer site.
posted by travelGoo @ 12:42
1 Comments:
At Wed Oct 29, 08:09:00 AM 2008,
Sabina said…
Well written article.
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