Today, after my flight arrived late, I ran 60 gates to get my connecting flight. I sprinted up to the gate agent, completely out of breath, and he looked at me, shut the door, and said, “The door is shut. You’re too late.” FML
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Today, after my first flight landed late, I burned out my lungs sprinting full speed for 10 minutes to catch my next flight. The gate number on my ticket was wrong. It had been changed to one right next to where I had originally pulled up to. FML
Today, I checked in for my flight, made it through TSA, bought food, and sat at the gate for an hour. I only realized I was sitting at the wrong gate when boarding for another flight finished and everyone had left. I ran to the correct gate, but it was too late. Despite me pleading, the plane was already taxiing to the runway. FML
Today, I was running late and rushing to a waiting bus. I made it to the doors just as they closed. I knocked desperately, hoping the driver would let me in. He hovered his hand over the button for a few seconds, then flipped me off, and drove away laughing. FML
Today, I waited patiently in the airport as my flight was repeatedly delayed. After 5 long hours I approached one of the attendees to discover that the plane had left 5 minutes ago. FML
Today, due to a scheduling error, I spent an entire day and night in an airport, over 30 hours in total. Just as I arrived at the gate, I was informed that my flight had been delayed for another 2 hours. FML
Today, I picked up a passenger from the airport who insisted he was late. Drove fast, dropped him off, felt efficient, then noticed his phone on the back seat. After circling trying to find him, I ended up back at the airport, where he was waiting because I’d taken him to the wrong terminal. FML
Today, I arrived at the airport two and a half hours early because I was expecting it to be busy. The line was long but I had plenty of time, until a woman complained about a fee for checked bags. I was next in line, and still managed to miss my flight because the woman caused such a big scene. FML
Today, my flight was at the other side of the airport. I ran to the gate, to find that the flight had moved to the other side of the airport. So I ran again to miss my plane by a minute. However I did get a new flight... at the other end of the airport. FML
Today, I was late for an interview. Going into the elevator, a man ran up to the doors but since I was late, I pressed the "close" button. When I arrived to the office, the secretary asked me to wait. The boss walked in to interview me. The man whose face I closed the elevator doors on. FML
Today, I was stuck at the airport overnight waiting for my flight for about 5 hours. I then went and looked at the departures board. It said that my flight had already departed. FML
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Symphoniaes 32
Hopefully you were able to book a later flight complimentary of the late airline, otherwise I would submit a complaint and request that they cover any change fees or other expenses.
ChromoTec 24
If the gate was still open when you got there, he should be required to keep it open until the appropriate time. Him doing that right as you got there just makes him an asshole.
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Comments (27)
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
wow. what an asshole.
chessu 21
Luckily, I've never missed a flight, but I have been close a few times! It does depend on the airlines as well as the airport. I've flown LOT > BA via Munich and they had managed to pass over the information for other airlines where they had more passengers and under an hour to make the flight and got them a transfer, whereas I was the only one catching the BA one with 1h 5mins to go and had to change terminals with no help provided by anyone. Had to run and cut multiple queues and only barely made it to the end of the BA line (my luggage however did not). And then I've flown Qatar via Doha where the first flight was delayed prior and there was about an hour to catch the next one and there were like 10 Qatar reps waiting at the door for various flights and we cut all the queues and the 2nd flight took off early as we were all there on time! Hopefully, you had bought it as a single ticket and the airline was responsible for putting you up and getting you onto the next available flight.
Suaria 38
I've never missed a flight. However one time my flight was delayed an hour and I had 20 minutes to figure out where my next flight is and to get to it. Luckily the other flight I was taking was also delayed.
acmariner99 25
Was this United Airlines?
Tarlachia 33
No, they would’ve slammed the door on OP’s hand. Repeatedly.
thelittlem 15
No by the sounds of it he doesnt have a dead puppy.
Tarlachia 33
“Speak friend and enter.” “Mellon.” “Yo Gandalf...Welcome back to the real world.” (Door slams) “What a wretched creature that is!”
Rosemarie Townsend 13
Omg!! People like that just need to remember karma!! What comes around goes around!!
onceuponatime456 16
That's about when the gate agent would be out of a job and likely on his back for 6 to 8 months! It would be a beating he would never forget!
Jon Tessler 14
i work for an airline, and under FAA rules, the gate agents are required to release seats and close the gate down 10 minutes prior to departure. while it seems a crappy thing to do, this is to maintain proper air traffic flow to and from every airport. the OP would be automatically put at the top of the standby list for the next flight. yep the gate agent may have seemed like a snotty person, but he was actually doing his job.