Out of Laguardia about a dozen?? years ago (they just banned smoking on outgoing flights internationally that year)-I'm on a Apple Tours Charter( pioneer of the frill-less flights) to Puerto Vallarta -snows during the night- auto travel is in the dumpster slip-sliding in the wind driven snow. Get there 5:40AM in plenty(pre911)of time for my 7AM wheels up. The charter airline-Transfatty Aero de Chimmychanga or somesuch -is at the Air France loading area(rented for the charter's use). Flights above and below us on the InfoBoards are listed as delayed but we are called to board the plane. Only 30% no-show says the flight attendant- seal up and pull away from the jetwaytunnel as an Air France plane pulls in- 7:12am I write on ticket- 5ish hours later I'd be deplaning(why don't you plane and then un-board?)in sunny Maaa-heee-coooo OLE!! ... and we wait, and we wait, and we wait ,9AM-Noon- can't go back to the gate theres a Air Froggish Plane sitting there.. so we wait-3PM Get de-iced- but no go - at 5ish we get the announcement were 7th in line to deice and take off... wheels up 6:03 PM for our 5+ hour flight - Trapped inside with no more peanuts,those little booze bottles in locked cabnets and about half a' freakin' plane full of smokers in the death thros of withdrawal. Arrive at our hotel in the middle of the night-to find they will not open the kitchen and lets us have someting to eat-no food courts in PV airport- and no street venders out a freakin midnight -not even a freakin box of Bran Flakes!!!!
Your flight got cancelled- yipee!! mine didn't