Mr. finally made back to Hisbed today! Spent the night in Chicago. Arrived here after only about an hour delay. I had to coordinate with the kids being on 2 hour delay to school cause I borrowed Miss silver's 4-wheel drive Jeep.
His fight home from Phoenix should have only been about a 2 or 34 hour fight at the most. They had to be put into circling holding patterns because...I suppose Chicago wasn't accepting flights. They flew their holding pattern for so long that they were running out of fuel so that's why they landed in Minn.
They probably could have delivered all the passengers safely to their respective destinations in that time. Only thing was....Mr. said that it was a 757 and our runway here in little town Indiana can't land a 757.
Oh, well, he's home now. We had a nice Valentine's Day Lunch and he'll be commuting back to b'town soon.
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02-14-2007, 11:35 AM #1
They call me Crash
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02-14-2007, 11:50 AM #2
I like bikes
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Gee, Mr Silver, why didn't you just fly to Europe? It would have been more fun!
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02-15-2007, 03:03 PM #3
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Reminds me of the vacation I took at the Detroit airport.
We were flying from Mpls. to New Orleans and had a connection in Detriot, which is sort of out of the way, but it was NorthWest, so there you go. Anyway, it didn't occur to us that just because MN and LA are in the same time zone, that our connection wouldn't necessarily be in the same time zone.
So we sat around the airport killing time during the hour we thought we had between flights and missed it. It was during Easter break, so there were no more flights to New Orleans. We ended up flying back to MN and starting over again the next day. But only after spending twelve lovely hours in the Detroit airport playing cards and being very crabby.
I wish we could have some of that snow up here. Sad that they are now routing planes to Minneapolis because we're the only place in the midwest with NO snow!
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02-15-2007, 04:46 PM #4
f/k/a Mr. S.
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Forgot my passport...they have soldiers with uzzies at the airports there!
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Besides, why would I pass up a $13 Turkey and Swiss on Baguette in Minneapolis in February and then in the same night get the chance to pay $279 for a $95 hotel room at O'Hare?
Wow! That's an oxymoron! Originally Posted by pyxichick
Last edited by Mr. Bloom; 02-15-2007 at 04:50 PM.
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