[tei-council] 35.3 hours

[Paul Schaffner]

15.5 hours. And that's only because the taxi and bus(es) and LHR staff
were so swift that I ended up getting to Heathrow 4 hours early, and 
US customs at DTW were quick too.

pfs

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014, at 17:44, Hugh Cayless wrote:
> Ugh. Worse than mine, which only took about 29 hours. Connecting flight
> canceled, so spent the night in New York then flew home via Charlotte.
> Almost missed my connection there, but made it. 
> 
> Sent from my phone. 
> 
> > On Jul 4, 2014, at 14:27, Syd Bauman <syd at paramedic.wwp.northeastern.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > That's how long it took me to get home. I left 37 Wellington Square
> > at ~05:48 +01. I got home ~2.2 hours ago, at 12:06 -04. Highlights of
> > this comedy of errors include 1 delayed flight, 2 cancelled flights,
> > several bits of mis-information from United staff, what little free
> > wireless there is at EWR not working, > 4 hours of waiting on various
> > lines at EWR, ~1.5 hours of waiting on hold for United phone
> > assistance, listening to a 20-something year old princess headed to
> > West Palm Beach tell the United desk agent that "I have to be on that
> > flight -- it can't leave without me ... tomorrow is my birthday and I
> > can't be traveling in my birthday", a power failure in EWR terminal
> > C, lightning over the runway, inability to get food while at EWR for
> > fear of losing place on line, both Amtrak trains from EWR to PVD
> > already full, connecting with a very nice fellow also heading towards
> > Providence while on line to get assistance re-booking (which we never
> > got), being told it would take a minimum of 2 hours to retrieve our
> > luggage (which I not only haven't gotten yet, United hasn't even
> > found it yet), renting a car with said fellow and driving as far as
> > Groton CT, staying overnight in a hotel (~4 hrs sleep), and (when I
> > finally got to my car) finding that I had left a door ajar, and thus
> > the battery was stone dead.
> > 
> > I hope others had better travel experiences than I.
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