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Going to Seattle

Mon, 10 May 2010 [comments]

Well, at least I am trying hard to get to Seattle to visit Sonali Shah, so far without much success.

  1. Delay due to the Iceland volcanoe of 2 hours, half an hour due to head wind

  2. 2.5h queuing at the immigration control (that makes US immigration worse than a volcanoe!)

  3. Missed connection flight in Washington DC, 2 more hours of queuing at the customer service counter.

    I actually tried to rebook at the checkin computer as suggested but that caused the United kiosk to crash and just display "Closed" on the monitor. Trying from a different terminal tells me to pick up the phone for assistence which, when I do it leads to the terminal simply showing the start screen again and not connecting me to anyone....

  4. Sleep at the airport, next morning I am booked on a flight to San Francisco(!!!!), then perhaps off to Seattle.

  5. United offers me a voucher for cheap hotel services (without specifying what those would cost). 6) Being up for 24h now, I am too tired to be angry.

UPDATE: "America runs on Dunkin'" How the crap can one survive this coffee (small size=414ml) lest run on it! Poor America. I had to throw it away.

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