Not a good start to the flying year

I haven't flown in a while, business has been slow. So we decided to take some time off and fly and visit some relatives. The initial flight was on the new Embraer E-175, it's always exciting to fly a new aircraft. Just not when it seems that these new planes are having nothing but troubles. The inbound flight the night before had mechanical issues, so the flight landed about three hours late. So the crew needed their rest, good thing we know how to use the web, we found out ahead of time that the outbound flight in the morning would be delayed due to crew rest. The delay would have us mis-connect by eight minutes. Needless to say, they would prefer to re-book us on another airline with extra connections much later in the day, rather than delay our original connection by a mere 20 minutes.

We eventually made it to Vegas really late that night, we headed to a hotel to grab a nap then hookup with our original ride in the morning, eventually making it to Lake Havasu the following day. A slight delay to the start of our holiday, but a good one none the less.

As a note the Merger that NWA is going through and the continual cost savings measures are really driving customer service to an all new low for Northwest. The platinum line doesn't even know which rows on the plane are exit rows. A very sad state they are in.