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Listening to a bad rock band in the Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires, we're waiting for the last flight leg of our trip to Antarctica. We've three hours to kill, and that's too little time to make it to a hotel and back in the middle of the night. So we're paying outrageous prices in dollars for hot chocolate and an almost cafe mocha in order to sit in nice comfy chairs across from the LAN check-in desk.
It all started when we arrived at San Francisco Airport to find the flight crew would be late on their flight in, and we would be missing our connecting flight in Houston to Buenos Aires. All other connections would be missed, and the MS Fram would sail without us. We decided (against all United advice) to take the delayed flight, and get as creative as we could in Houston with other airlines.
The options included several U.S. and South American airlines, flying through New York, Toronto, and Miami (we took Miami). We turned down flying through Mexico City, Santiago, Bogota, and Rio. But we finally made it a couple of hours ago, and we have to thank the United Customer Service Rep Jean Etienne in Houston for saving us lots of money and getting our luggage safely over to American in time to meet us in BA.
Gregory and Pat
Listening to a bad rock band in the Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires, we're waiting for the last flight leg of our trip to Antarctica. We've three hours to kill, and that's too little time to make it to a hotel and back in the middle of the night. So we're paying outrageous prices in dollars for hot chocolate and an almost cafe mocha in order to sit in nice comfy chairs across from the LAN check-in desk.
It all started when we arrived at San Francisco Airport to find the flight crew would be late on their flight in, and we would be missing our connecting flight in Houston to Buenos Aires. All other connections would be missed, and the MS Fram would sail without us. We decided (against all United advice) to take the delayed flight, and get as creative as we could in Houston with other airlines.
The options included several U.S. and South American airlines, flying through New York, Toronto, and Miami (we took Miami). We turned down flying through Mexico City, Santiago, Bogota, and Rio. But we finally made it a couple of hours ago, and we have to thank the United Customer Service Rep Jean Etienne in Houston for saving us lots of money and getting our luggage safely over to American in time to meet us in BA.
Gregory and Pat
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