Been delayed 3 times so far in all my travels, with varying degrees of suck.
First and longest, flew back home to Norway from old home of US in May 2021. Quarantine still under effect but I thought I could Q at home. Well, if I’d flown direct into Bergen, then yes. But because I had a stop in Oslo, I was detained and sent to a Q hotel for 10 days, having my anniversary dinner with my husband via Zoom. All in all not particularly terrible as I wasn’t missing work or anything. Just my husband of 21 years.
The WORST one was when we went to see Eras Tour in Vienna. Sad trip already. Then on the way home, our flight was cancelled. The airline did a good job and it was a quick resolution - we were booked for the following anfternoon and set up in a hotel, got meal vouchers. My husband wasn’t feeling super well, and we just wanted to get home. The first thing in the hotel, my husband lays back on the bed only to smack the ahit out of the back of his head on a piece of concrete trim jutting out. Super cool placement. He was pretty fucked up, it was Sunday in Austria so not much was open to get pain meds. We find some finally and he is just rapidly feeling worse. The next day he is in a ton of pain, scratchiest throat of his life, and we are done with Vienna. We both wear masks on the planes home. Turns out, he had covid. In 2024 after 3 vaxs. It was a miserable following 2 weeks for him but I somehow never ended up with it.
Last one wasn’t so bad (and a couple years prior to Vienna) but we were never reimbursed because fuck WIZZ AIR. Our flight from Gdańsk got cancelled and they put us on a new flight for the next day and a hotel, etc. But they lowballed us on the reimbursement for travel interruption and then when we declined that quote, just dropped it. It was this experience that changed how I book travel and now carrry private travel insurance now so, not all terrible. And we had a nice extra day in Sopot, Poland as a result.
Been delayed 3 times so far in all my travels, with varying degrees of suck.
First and longest, flew back home to Norway from old home of US in May 2021. Quarantine still under effect but I thought I could Q at home. Well, if I’d flown direct into Bergen, then yes. But because I had a stop in Oslo, I was detained and sent to a Q hotel for 10 days, having my anniversary dinner with my husband via Zoom. All in all not particularly terrible as I wasn’t missing work or anything. Just my husband of 21 years.
The WORST one was when we went to see Eras Tour in Vienna. Sad trip already. Then on the way home, our flight was cancelled. The airline did a good job and it was a quick resolution - we were booked for the following anfternoon and set up in a hotel, got meal vouchers. My husband wasn’t feeling super well, and we just wanted to get home. The first thing in the hotel, my husband lays back on the bed only to smack the ahit out of the back of his head on a piece of concrete trim jutting out. Super cool placement. He was pretty fucked up, it was Sunday in Austria so not much was open to get pain meds. We find some finally and he is just rapidly feeling worse. The next day he is in a ton of pain, scratchiest throat of his life, and we are done with Vienna. We both wear masks on the planes home. Turns out, he had covid. In 2024 after 3 vaxs. It was a miserable following 2 weeks for him but I somehow never ended up with it.
Last one wasn’t so bad (and a couple years prior to Vienna) but we were never reimbursed because fuck WIZZ AIR. Our flight from Gdańsk got cancelled and they put us on a new flight for the next day and a hotel, etc. But they lowballed us on the reimbursement for travel interruption and then when we declined that quote, just dropped it. It was this experience that changed how I book travel and now carrry private travel insurance now so, not all terrible. And we had a nice extra day in Sopot, Poland as a result.