I was "that guy" in ATL

[sam_gordon]

Because of a delay leaving my originating airport, I got to be "that" guy running through the Atlanta airport Tuesday (9/4) night. At 7:01PM, I was standing in the aisle at the back of the plane (row 30) at gate A18 (door hadn't opened yet). At 7:10PM, I was walking down the gangway of gate B11 for my connecting flight scheduled to leave at 7:15PM.

I hadn't even sat down (still walking down the plane's aisle) when the pilot got on the intercom saying "boarding has been completed".

I appreciate all of those who moved out of my way going down the escalator to the tram (I was saying "excuse me", not just barging down). If they hadn't done that, I wouldn't have made the tram (doors closed about 5-10 seconds after I got on), and probably wouldn't have made my flight.

Fortunately I didn't have to jump over any luggage.

 

[Jestocost]

Because of a delay leaving my originating airport, I got to be "that" guy running through the Atlanta airport Tuesday (9/4) night. At 7:01PM, I was standing in the aisle at the back of the plane (row 30) at gate A18 (door hadn't opened yet). At 7:10PM, I was walking down the gangway of gate B11 for my connecting flight scheduled to leave at 7:15PM.

I hadn't even sat down (still walking down the plane's aisle) when the pilot got on the intercom saying "boarding has been completed".

I appreciate all of those who moved out of my way going down the escalator to the tram (I was saying "excuse me", not just barging down). If they hadn't done that, I wouldn't have made the tram (doors closed about 5-10 seconds after I got on), and probably wouldn't have made my flight.

Fortunately I didn't have to jump over any luggage.

I feel your pain. My worst ever was having to run from the far corner United's C Concourse at O'Hare to the end of American's L Concourse and then actually purchase a ticket on the American flight at the gate. That's after United had no seat for me out of O'Hare after their delays on my incoming flight forced me to miss my original connection.

 

[mjplantz]

Glad you made it... thats the way I always looked at it. I used to travel weekly and the number of times I had last minute scenarios seems endless. Once got the Southwest counter agent to return my keys to Hertz and they held the plane for me when I was trying to make it home for my wife's birthday. I got on the plane and the flight attendant said, "we want to go home so we aren't redoing the TSA stuff for you... we assume you got it down." Always loved my Dallas based SW crews... they have to get those planes back to Dallas for the next day...

 

[ToddyLu]

My worst was on a flight from New Orleans (70 degrees) to Newark (snow storm). When we were coming up to the gate my DH calls to tell me that Newark airport was closing and didn't know when they would be opening again. So Mom and I ran to the counter to change flights and we got the LAST plane out to New Orleans. We had to wait 1 1/2 hours for them to de-ice the plane before takeoff. Luckily we stopped a people mover go cart and hopped on--when we got to our gate they had to open the door and let us on the flight. Somehow the lady that changed our tickets met us there and tried to make sure we got on the flight.

One of the funniest (now, looking back) was when my MIL and I flew to California to move her mother to Mississippi. We got 80 year old Grandma on the plane in Redding--made it to San Fransico--arrived on United, left out on American--so Grandma was pushed in a WC ALL THE WAY from one end of the airport to the other. Landed in Houston late....my MIL and I literally plopped her in a go cart thing and we headed to the gate...flying...her gray hair blowing in the wind. The guy driving was beeping his horn but he didn't know that we had sat in front of a team of hearing impaired athletes. So luckily they felt the vibration of the cart and stepped aside in the nick of time. We get to the gate..get Grandma in a WC to go down the elevator, we get ont he escalator to meet her at the bottom..then push her to the gate...the gate rep helps us get outside to a shuttle bus (getting Grandma up those steps after a long day was not easy). SHuttle takes us to the plane. Then we have to get Grandma off the shuttle...meanwhile the plane is cranked ready to go with the door closed and the attendant pulling the blocks from the wheels. The shuttle person runs up the flight of stairs and literally bangs their fist on the door. Then we have to get Grandma up those stairs.. OMG!!!! But she is a trooper and makes it up the stairs. I buckle her in...and then loose it in hysterics. It was one of the funniest experiences I ever had.

We got her home to MS and she fell in the kitchen after I left.

** I promise the above story is true, every word of it--I could not have made it up if I tried**

 

[lindsey]

Sounds like my last trip from Paris. Flight was delayed in Paris for over an hour. Ran to the customs area, waited im..patiently for lugggage, finally got it and thru the customs part with luggage. Checked it back in for flight to greenville, SC, then ran thru Atlanta to right terminal. I made it just in time, last person to board. I was so glad.