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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
Vitamin_C 0
Expedia is the devil. FYL!
ReyEr9412 0
Shut the **** up / / /
TigerWoods101 0
^^^^^^^^^ No, YOU shut the **** up
Roflmaaark 0
Noooo, me shut the **** up!!
grabblebyk 1
you should all shut the **** up!!!!!!
grabblebyk 1
you should all shut the **** up!!!!!!
nuts_in_your_fac 1
Yeah, what they said. STFU!
slushpup9696 12
Milwaukee's an awesome city.
permanentxmarker 0
SUEE.
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
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.
kittenmeownyan 18
Liking the comment for the friends reference!
nike1 0
Ow, that really sucks. You should get your money back!
thatonek1d 0
^^^ nice profile pic^^^
Frolly_fml 0
That sucks. Though not like females.
liskwd 0
It took you ten hours to work that out?!
archue 2
Yep, automatic YDI.
cartering 0
Yeah, even if he was too stupid to do the common sense thing and double check his flight, he deserved it for hanging out in the airport lobby for 10 hours without trying to check in to get on his plane
aback 5
No, it sounds like they didn't have a flight to her destination for another ten hours.
codaic1549 0
I think when he/she tried to check in, when they were looking for that flight they had none.
Icywizard00 0
Why would he deserve it?? It's not his fault the airline was stupid enough to book him on a flight that doesn't exist..
someguy945 0
The FML is that he spent 10 hours. How could you wait around for 10 hours without doing anything to figure out what happened. The first thing you have to do at the airport is check in. If the flight didn't exist, he couldn't check in for it. So what was he doing?
smiles1234456 0
it's a woman.
fuzzybunnysays 0
looks like someone's been heartbroken... :) or just hasn't ever been laid
aztec37 0
she was probably waiting for the next flight. I've had to do this because of "technical difficulties" with the plane, except i had to wait longer.
aremmert 0
Maybe he meant waiting ten hours in the airport for the new flight. You know, the one that actually existed.
MathMajor6 6
He was waiting for the next flight to Milwaukee.
cxal_fml 0
They don't let you through the gates 10 hours before your flight is scheduled to take off, so if he meant he waited around the airport for 10 hours to get the next flight, it still begs the question, What was he doing it that it took him 10 hours in the airport? Even busy airports don't let you through the gates more than 4 hours in advance.
thief1434 23
Yeah they do........ Also, OP could've waited in part of the airport that you don't need to go through security to get to.
um_duh 0
You didn't think to check the flight with the airline? Don't you know you should always confirm your flight prior to departure to save yourself these kind of hassles...
cartering 0
They would have told you this when you checked in. You can't even go into the loading area without a valid ticket, and even if you don't check luggage, you have to go to your airline to sign in for the flight before then
hahaha6 0
Uhhhh... isn't that what happened? Thats how i took it anyways. When he went to check- in there was no flight to check in to.....