Well, after seven hours of pushing back our flight, Alaska Airlines finally had the balls to cancel it. Luckily (?!) we rebooked on a red eye to LAX and then a connecting flight to SFO getting in at 9:35am tomorrow right before it was officially cancelled, when there were still a few seats left. Thank goodness our kids don’t start school until Wednesday.
Right now I’m waiting for our checked luggage to come out at baggage claim. Then I have to check us in for our new flights and finally clear TSA for a second time today.
We arrived at the airport at 8am and will be leaving at 10:30pm (please let us leave at 10:30pm), which obviously isn’t the way we wanted to spend our day. But it is what it is, and at least we’ll be home for most of tomorrow (all appendages crossed!)
This is our 8th flight of the summer and the first absolute disaster, so I guess our air travel luck finally ran out. The fact that we were getting such great COVID and air flight karma felt unfair, and if one had to go I’d prefer it be air travel!
I really, really hope our new flights don’t have any issues. Our connecting flight time is way tighter than I would like, and we have to check a bag.
🤞🤞🤞🤞
LONG day when you are at airport like that. HOPE you and ALL BAGGAGE are now safely ensconced at home in SF doing put away, wash, clean up and ready for school/work tomorrow activities. Sending you huge support and thank you for the wonderful visual images and verbal descriptions from an amazing summer of adventure!