Today, I was flying home to Milwaukee after a weekend in South Carolina. When I got to the airport, my reservation didn't match up with any flights. Turns out Expedia booked me on a flight that doen't exist. I spent ten hours waiting in the airport for a two hour flight. FML
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Today, I was waiting at the airport for a flight when I looked down and realised that I had booked the wrong date. Frantically, I tried to rebook the flight, but it was completely sold out. Now, I'm stuck in the airport for the next 24 hours with nothing to do. 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 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
Today, when I arrived at the airport for my international flight there was no record of my ticket in the system. Turns out the flight was yesterday. FML
Today, I was on a flight home. I wasn't going to arrive until midnight, so I was offered an earlier flight that got back at ten. I got to baggage claims and it turned out they lost my bag. I sat there for 2 hours. The people on my original flight left for home before I did. FML
Today, I spent six hours driving between two airports to try and catch my flight. Two trailer accidents, two construction zones, three detours, and one police escort later, the airline wouldn't let me on the plane. FML
Today, I woke up at 3am to catch my flight back home, only to realize that my flight was pushed back 14 hours. 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, 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'm anxious traveler who's flying by myself. My first flight got delayed due to one issue after another. This caused me to miss my connection. There are no more flights today so I'm having to stay overnight which, by the way, the airline won't pay for. FML
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smiles1234456 0
ahh omg did that happen to anyone else?? i mean there must have been a big confusion.. or were you at the right airport..? don't want another "ross/rachel season finale" incident here.
smiling_elephant 0
that sucks. some friends of mine were going to miss their flight and they got no answer at any of expedia's three numbers they called. they got stuck in prague had to spend a couple thousand to get home and couldn't get a refund. next time, dont book with expedia
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Comments (92)
bayybee 0
at least you're from milwaukee. If you were from anywhere else it'd be a fyl jk :D
survivalism 0
Really? What happened then, did you FLY THROUGH THE AIR MIRACULOUSLY?
allmidnighteyes 11
FYL because Expedia is ******* retarded.
mixedchick 0
that sucks that happened to me too i was sitting in the airport of puerto rico crying because I HAD to get home ughh i hate airlines, planes airports EXPEDIA
f_u_c_kmylife 0
Haha are you from Milwaukee or Minnesota? Because the FML says "I was flying home to Milwaukee", but at the bottom, it says United States (Minnesota).
My_Life24 22
Minnesota rules! Born and raised!
LilaBear 2
Haha. That's why you book direct with the airline and not thru 3rd parties.
lologirl419 0
FAKE. Expedia doesn't book flights that just don't exist! Maybe, if this is real, your flight got cancelled or something... Did you ask if it got cancelled?
inf1nite 0
let's play 30 seconds on google (since i don't care enough to spend 20 minutes): a quick search on the first site that comes up (farecompare.com, in case you care) shows no direct flights from charleston (to pick any random airport in south carolina) to milwaukee. most of the flights involve a layover in chicago. charleston to o'hare int'l is already a little over a 2-hour flight. o'hare to milwaukee is a little under an hour. thus, your flight ought to have been three hours. not two. time fail. so either you have a super fast private jet, in which case you probably shouldn't have had to wait at the airport for it (definitely not for ten hours, anyway), or you suck at making up good fmls.
GrinningColossus 0
MYTH BUSTED
LoloA78 0
Milwaukee isn't in Minnesota. It's in Wisconsin.
annaattack 0
I live in South Carolina! :) Like an hour away from Myrtle Beach. It's great. Oh and, FYL.
baffledkitten 0
I'm a South Carolinian too! :D Except I'm about 20 minutes from Charleston, and I'm not as big a fan of this state. To the OP: Umm..are you sure you got the right Charleston when you booked your flight? I wouldn't have thought there were any other Charleston airports, but you never know. Also, inf1nite is right.. There are very few direct flights to/from Charleston (it's a tiiiiny airport), so you should've had a layover in Chicago or Detroit or somewhere, which means your flight would've been about 3 hours instead. I'm not calling fake, I'm just saying.