I just missed mine. Feeling pretty stupid right now. Hopefully your stories will cheer me up.

  • thenicnet@kbin.social
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    Somehow I missed a flight while I was at the gate. Mind you it was a small plane. I still don’t understand it to this day. I was sitting at the gate waiting for them to announce boarding or watch the sign change. Nothing the whole time I was there.

    Finally about 20 minutes after we were supposed to leave I get up and ask the desk staff and they tell me the plane left.

    I didn’t understand how this had happened and apparently neither did they. I didn’t see anyone board the plane, there were no announcements or notifications.

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      1 year ago

      I have had this happen to me.
      Super early flight. Maybe 6am or something. And I even arrived quite early. too early, it would seem. I sit down in front of the gate and just wait. Now, you might be thinking, he fell asleep! No, I was awake. But I wear Noise-Canceling Headphones when flying. And I missed the announcement about a last minute gate change. By the time I got suspicious about why the gate staff hadn’t arrived yet it was too late. The new gate was quite far away. Despite an early morning sprint through the airport I was too late.

      Another amazingly stupid mishap I have experienced while traveling is that I mixed up the return date by a month. If I remember correctly I was booking a return flight at the end of February. The UI of the little calendar that pops up while picking your flights somehow automatically move to the next month of March. I was going to stay a week (or maybe 5 days or whatever). So, in my mind I was only looking at the day. Let’s say the outbound flight was on the 23rd of February. I was going to stay a week. The calendar for the return leg automatically moved to March. So I click on “next month” and pick the 2nd. But not of March, of April now.

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        You probably explained the unexplained. A gate change would explain why even the staff were confused, as they were just there for whatever other flight was assigned to that gate.