Don Jones
Line Up and Wait
Rotten start to a sweet adventure
The wife and I recently spent 7 days in Maui. Had a blast while there, however the trip over was a disaster. We caught our flight in El Paso going to Phoenix where we were to catch the connecting direct flight to Maui and that's where the trouble began. We boarded the flight only to sit on the ramp for 45 minutes after the scheduled departure waiting for "the over-water inspection paperwork to be signed off". They finally close the door and off we go, life is good. Roughly 3-4 hours later while naping in my seat, the pilot comes on and says we have turned around for the coast of California and have decended down to 9000 feet due to a leak in the flight crew's oxygen system. Uggg, 2 hours back to LAX,(not enough fuel to make Maui at 10000 ft) on the ground there for about 3 hours, some of which was delays on the ramp again waiting on paperwork to be signed off, then 6 hours getting to Maui. Over 12 hours late arriving. Not the way to start a vacation. We did have a blast while there, so all was well and the flight home was no problem at all. We were scheduled to rent a plane and fly on Wednesday, but I scrubbed that after preflight on the plane(absolute junk, with so much corrosion I could not believe it). I did write a scathing letter to the airline for what good it will do.
The wife and I recently spent 7 days in Maui. Had a blast while there, however the trip over was a disaster. We caught our flight in El Paso going to Phoenix where we were to catch the connecting direct flight to Maui and that's where the trouble began. We boarded the flight only to sit on the ramp for 45 minutes after the scheduled departure waiting for "the over-water inspection paperwork to be signed off". They finally close the door and off we go, life is good. Roughly 3-4 hours later while naping in my seat, the pilot comes on and says we have turned around for the coast of California and have decended down to 9000 feet due to a leak in the flight crew's oxygen system. Uggg, 2 hours back to LAX,(not enough fuel to make Maui at 10000 ft) on the ground there for about 3 hours, some of which was delays on the ramp again waiting on paperwork to be signed off, then 6 hours getting to Maui. Over 12 hours late arriving. Not the way to start a vacation. We did have a blast while there, so all was well and the flight home was no problem at all. We were scheduled to rent a plane and fly on Wednesday, but I scrubbed that after preflight on the plane(absolute junk, with so much corrosion I could not believe it). I did write a scathing letter to the airline for what good it will do.
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