*draft due to me not being able to move nightmare pics from phone to computer during flight
ORD-SEA-GEG Nightmare Sept 27-28.
So my last few flights have been dismal at best. The first nightmare- when you get a weather delay and you miss the last connecting flight home, there is NO compensation, Zero, Zip. The incompetent CS agent who rebooked me on an earlier flight booked the connection for before I was supposed to land in SEA. Then I noticed I was also not on upgrade list, so I called back CS, and that's when I realized she had booked me on the wrong flight. So, I went from First Class on my delayed flight to Row 22 or some shit middle seat just to get home that night. Well, lo and behold, we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours at least and didn't take off.... so... I missed the last 11pmish flight from SEA to GEG. NO COMPENSATION FOR WEATHER DELAYS. So, I fucking camped on a bench across from McDonalds in B gate, as by the time I landed it was 1, by the tine I got off 1:30 due to being in the back of the bus, and you can't book Hilton online for day prior so I would have had to call or walk there making it 2AM just to leave at 4:30 AM for my 6AM flight, not to mention walking in the rain to get there. So no, I camped at SEA TAC.
After swearing off never getting on a plane again,
PDX-OGG Oct 14.
My next horror flight was to Maui on Oct 14. I was next on upgrade list but did not get an upgrade. That's totally fine. Not an issue. HOWEVER... this fucking baby in the seat behind me (8C) was kicking the seat, whining, yelling, crying, going ape shit, and the parent did nothing. I turned around the third time after a kicking episode and gave it the look of death like I would kill it. At that point, the parent (dad) gave the kid to the mom in seat 8A (window). Fine. Let it kick the shit out of 7A, not my problem. I should have known as when I boarded, because the parents had all their shit staged on my seat 7C while they got situated in row 8. I was like, uh, this is my seat, is this your stuff? Can I sit here? Totally oblivious parents.
GEG-SEA-LAS Nov 1.
So the day before my flight, I call as I changed to an earlier flight to be by my friend who I was traveling with. I noticed again that I was not on the upgrade list. This wasn't the first time, but it was notable the last time on my Chicago flight that I couldn't seem to get on the upgrade list no matter what. The first agent tried to tell me I had to wait 15 min to see it. After waiting an hour, I checked again and called again. This time, luckily I got someone willing to look further into it, After spending hours on the phone with the agent, she said she knew what was wrong. When you change your flights when checking in (mind you they give you the option), the back end of the reservation doesn't match the front end. They have to rebook your flight and you have to check in again. Ok, so I did. Still not on list. Luckily this agent gave me her name so when I called back CS, I was able to get a hold of her. (after accidentally being hung up on once, told they can't patch us to a certain person, etc). I finally got a hold of her again and told her, thanks and all but no, I'm still not on the list. So she checked into it more and said you have to ask for PFA or something like that, and there's only a few CS reps who can make these changes etc. After 2 hours of dicking around with this, she decided as a comp to put me in First anyway next to my friend as it was empty. Thank god.
So, as fate would have it, we are boarding, and encountered the rudest gate agent on the planet. Sorry ma'am that isn't your seat now, you're going to have to go to the desk. (line at desk) as I'm boarding for Row 1. So at desk: sorry, your seat is broken, we have to get you another seat. Come to find out, yes my seat was allegedly "broken" although my friend tested it and says it's fine - and the seatbelt works as she is in 1A next to my empty 1C seat. I feel worse for the guy in 4 something as the KID and mom in row 1D and F got moved to his row, and his new seat in 1D broke so he got booted too. Never mind they didn't boot us to premium.... Here we sit in Row 28, D and E. What the fuck. They allegedly moved another First guy to premium and booted a premium lady back here who had a seat next to her hubby as 6C was also broken. WTF is wrong with the seats on this plane?!??! There is nothing visibly wrong with them. Anyway, they handled this poorly as the plane arrived at the gate from Anchorage over an hour before boarding and we were not told until we tried to get on the plane that we got fucked/downgraded. Why did they not move us to premium and downgrade the folks there who just got upgraded? This was a friggin disaster. They almost had to kick the guy off who is now in 28E as his rage surpassed mine. Yeah, I didn't pay for it, but 1) don't be rude, and 2) don't lie to us and 3) why not put us in premium... or say sorry. No, just total rudeness from SEA agents. The one agent was decent to me, probably because I looked like I was going to cry. She took my rollerbag on so it would have a spot and let my friend keep in it 1st with her. Thank god, I wasn't going to get on last and check my bag. Anyway, this nightmare continues, I'm starving and was looking forward to the food in First but now I guess I will starve and be in a total rager for the next two hours due to the shitshow of this flight.
