the smiths, transp, trip report philly yuch..long

[leanne11]

well i hate philly airport and i dreaded united tix/us airplane but we got there 4 hours early(friday night in philly) and the skycab took our 5 pieces and proceeded to put me in the 6 oclock flight i told him we were 8:00 and asked me if i wanted the 6, i said can i do that? we were just going to relax and eat there, but hey i was paying for the allsports anyway, so he came back and said here you go, i gave him a 30 buck tip, which he asked for(would have cost you alot more if you did it) never really feeling confident we had ANY tickets at all,or was i being swindled, we tried to move our car but now we were blocked in by a broken bus, everyone thought this was so funny he just put up a sign and walked away, after a cop helped us to the econ lot(in east jabip?) caught a bus, back to the broken down bus area, went through strange security where my 7ds was chosen to be picked but not me or my husband, we ate at Fridays and got on such a huge plane, it was completely empty, the flight att. let me and my dh sit on an empty row, great flight, very surprised, would fly again smooth...back flew airtran would not fly again,from Tampa great airport but i think the pilot JUST got his license and the barf bags were flying..he said sorry but they couldn't even serve drinks...

 

[manning]

Not much the pilot could do about that. You must have been in a BIG weather system. They usually can go over or around them. I was in one and everyone thought we where upside down a couple of times. It was rough. I talked to the pilot after we landed and he said there was no way they could avoid the storm. He said every plane around us was having the same problem.