Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Take Two!


This seems like ground hog day. Here I am at Toronto Airport, airside in terminal 1 waiting for a flight to London in 4 hour time and looking at a black funny thing taking up way to much shopping space. I hope I get on this flight, tonight, I kinda feel like Tom Hanks in that film where he's stuck living in an airport - Terminal I think it was called. I wonder if they 50 people they off loaded yesterday will all get on the various flights today. I keep seeing them around, we're all hopefull, giving each other encouragement, but also Secretly hoping for everyones sake we dont actually see each other again, in the nicest way possible. Ok, my battery is beeping, so I best send this now. Wish me luck.

Toronto or bust!

Two hours after I found out that Air Canada had downgraded an aircraft type to one with fifty less seats I find myself in a minisuite at The Crowne Plaza hotel in Toronto and I'm completely knackered, hungry us hell and completely pissed off!
If they'd have told me that my flight was going to be downgraded, I could have got the earlier flight, maybe, had there been space, the boarder control lady knew there was going to be a delay, so why the fliping heck Air Canada didn't and didn't inform me is beyond all understanding. I'm trying not to get angry, they've booked me on a flight tomorrow leaving at 20.40, they've put me up in the Crowne Plaza, given me vouchers for breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow, or rather later today as it is now and a voucher for some dollars off another flight sometime within the next 365 days, which can be used on any of their Star Alliance partners as long as the flight I've chosen has an AC flight number, so there is a little bit of good news on this very long day.
However the down sides are more numerous, I'm knackered, I'm going to be a day late getting in to England and home to Brighton. I'm hungry, I've not eatten a thing since last nights Taco Bell thingy, I'm missing Matt, I've got no clothes to change into as my luggage has already gone to London, room service has nothing for vegetarians, breakfast is not until 6am, my laptop charge is in my suitcase, my phone charger is in my suitcase and my credit card wont work, I've got no credit on my phone to call the bank because I sent the previous photo posts from it and I can't top up my phone because my card doesn't work and on top of that I've just got US dollars in my wallet!
I shall moan not any more and get my head down for a few hours and worry about it in the morning, which is only a few hours away. Tomorrow, I'm sure is going to be a better day, well come on, lets face it, it couldn't be worse, or could it?

Toronto airport at night.


Oh just my luck. They've down graded the aircraft and I have been offloaded and stuck in Toronto for the night. Oh god this is going to be a long long trip.