I should preface this post with the following information:
- Dave has flown 1.7 million miles. He’s an experienced airplane traveler who is always very prepared.
- I haven’t flown nearly as much as he has, but I’m one of the more organized people I know.
That makes it all the more amazing to me that we missed our flight home on Sunday. We arrived at the Austin airport at 2 in preparation for our 3 PM flight, only to discover after a few minutes that we were supposed to be on a 1 PM flight. How embarrassing!
Amazingly, we managed to get home last night even though every flight we tried to get on was full. Dave’s Platinum status bumped us to the top of every Standby list and some very helpful gate agents managed to finagel us onto flights that were already too full. I am really impressed! I am also really tired because we landed after 11 and got to bed around 12, without any dinner. Ah well, at least we’re home.