Jim & Leslie's Adventures

Feb 20th, 2009 Montreal to New York …. Running

It was calling for ‘weather’ …. don’t we always have weather? … so we decided to boot to the airport early. Good thing.

We arrived in PE Trudeau airport at about 3:00 pm. Our flight was supposed to leave at 7:30. They told us that it was already delayed about 1 1/2 hours. The earlier flight was also delayed and they would put us on it.

We boarded at 5:15 to leave at 6:30 …. ha!

We sat on the plane with one delay after another and the snow picking up. De-icing …. waiting …. de-icing … waiting. Finally, at about 8:30 we took off. Most of the other passengers had decided to vacate by this time so we were about 15 on the plane.

JFK …. … we knew we didn’t have much time, but this was crazy. We arrived with one hour before take off. We ran … almost literally for 30 minutes to get to our gate. They said “Too late”. Then they found out we had no checked baggage and decided that if we ran we could still make it. We ran. They explained on the way that our luggage would not make it with us. Not enough time. More on this later.

We sneaked on to the Dubai flight just before take off. All went well from there, but that’s another story.

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