Wes Mantooth

I absolutely loath the airline industry with every fiber of my being, really if I have the time to do it I'd rather just drive.

Anyway I'm sure everyone here will appreciate this story. I was flying home from Nashville to Maine about two years ago, connector flight in Atlanta and then up the east coast to Portland, simple. Not really. The flight to Atlanta took off on time but when I arrived it turned out they had overbooked the flight and I had been bumped. The only option I had was to wait about 4 hours, fly to Cincinnati and go home that way, when I arrive in Ohio I almost immediately hear my name on the loudspeaker...great. I'm now informed, over much protest, that the flight was overbooked again, I'd been bumped and my only option was to fly back to Atlanta (complete with a 5 hour layover) and connect there. Yup I'd been flown to Cincinnati for no apparent reason what so ever. But it gets worse. We board the flight in Atlanta, and despite being a gorgeous summer afternoon, we just sat. An hour goes by, two until finally the pilot shows up, it turned out that nobody had been booked to actually fly the plane. They booked an entire flight, and forgot to actually find a pilot...amazing.

Needless to say when I do fly, I don't fly Delta anymore.

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