Part of the Glamour of Travel
Well, the original plan was to be at the office today. I was supposed to be home last night at about 10pm and resume normal activities today.
As it turns out, we started hearing about 1pm yesterday about a probable delay. Daughter and I hung out here in the lobby until about 9pm last night between taking turns to go eat or go to the bathroom. In the end it really did end up cancelled. We are now supposed to leave the resort at 11:30am today and depart on the flight at 2:40pm. I guess that puts us home about half past six tonight.
We do have one family of customers here vacationing this weekend. I was able to help keep them and the rest of the Funjet passengers reassured and informed as much as possible. These situations are difficult at best. In our world of CNN and instant information it is hard for people to tolerate not knowing exact, instant and accurate information. Especially when it has to do with the question of "are we going home or not?".
The best thing to do in situations like this are just to be patient and polite. We were very blessed yesterday. The passengers that stayed in Negril and Ocho Rios were already enroute to the airport before the delay happened. So, all of those hours when Daughter and I were here on our comfy sofa, with the wireless Internet, watching TV shows on my Macbook? There were many many people in the Montego Bay airport.
We were the lucky ones indeed.
I fully expect to get home today. I'll let you know if that changes. :-)
As it turns out, we started hearing about 1pm yesterday about a probable delay. Daughter and I hung out here in the lobby until about 9pm last night between taking turns to go eat or go to the bathroom. In the end it really did end up cancelled. We are now supposed to leave the resort at 11:30am today and depart on the flight at 2:40pm. I guess that puts us home about half past six tonight.
We do have one family of customers here vacationing this weekend. I was able to help keep them and the rest of the Funjet passengers reassured and informed as much as possible. These situations are difficult at best. In our world of CNN and instant information it is hard for people to tolerate not knowing exact, instant and accurate information. Especially when it has to do with the question of "are we going home or not?".
The best thing to do in situations like this are just to be patient and polite. We were very blessed yesterday. The passengers that stayed in Negril and Ocho Rios were already enroute to the airport before the delay happened. So, all of those hours when Daughter and I were here on our comfy sofa, with the wireless Internet, watching TV shows on my Macbook? There were many many people in the Montego Bay airport.
We were the lucky ones indeed.
I fully expect to get home today. I'll let you know if that changes. :-)
posted by Catherine Banks at 9:35 AM
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