I love this story. I love your tenacity. It's inspiring. At a time I need to muster my own. And this time, not in a writing way.
It took me weeks to get my adult children and husband to agree to go on a family vacation, to Amsterdam and Paris, in the narrow window of time we had to make this work given everyone's work, travel, and grad school schedules.
We carved out 11 days. I spend dozens of hours researching accommodations, activities, transfers, flights, and train rides. Thousands of dollars, but hey, who knows when we might get to vacation as our foursome again. To save some money, I booked flights to Amsterdam and from Paris on Icelandair, with one-stop in Reykjavik.
We were supposed to fly out Wednesday night. Our 8:50 flight to Reykjavik was delayed 15 minutes, then an hour, then canceled due to a faulty part related to the fuel line that made the plane fail a fuel test. To our disbelief, we rode home from the airport 5 hours after arriving.
Our flight was rescheduled for Thursday - yesterday - at 7:50pm. It was then delayed until 9pm. My son says he already knew the outcome. The new part they got for the same plane was not functioning. The plane failed the fuel test again. Twice. Our flight was cancelled again. Again we were in a Lyft ride home after 5+ hours at the airport.
This is high travel season. Flights are booked to the hilt. Icelandair scheduled us for a Delta flight direct to Amsterdam on Saturday evening, arriving Sunday. Our 5 nights in Amsterdam will turn to 2. I've rescheduled transfers and lost funds on everything we had booked.
I'm reaching for the tenacity to wipe the slate clean to fully enjoy our very short time in Amsterdam and our time in Paris. Fun memories await creation. We are lucky to have this opportunity. We are grateful for our health, our safety, and the privilege we have to do this, and to not be ruined by it.
I'm not asking for sympathy. Just empathizing with your fabulous tale of tenacity, Cathy, and working my resilience. Maybe a short story of my own will emerge from this. Or at least a marketing newsletter featuring Icelandair!
This sounds like it deserves a short story AND a newsletter. Perhaps a limited series in which every episode is another day in the airport? Hope you're able to transition from travel stress to travel bliss the minute you taste/see/smoke something amazing in Amsterdam!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm saving it. It could happen. The newsletter will of course be some angle on the marketing implications, but the short story would be fun to play with from a personal point of view. Fingers crossed for today's flight!
I love this story. I love your tenacity. It's inspiring. At a time I need to muster my own. And this time, not in a writing way.
It took me weeks to get my adult children and husband to agree to go on a family vacation, to Amsterdam and Paris, in the narrow window of time we had to make this work given everyone's work, travel, and grad school schedules.
We carved out 11 days. I spend dozens of hours researching accommodations, activities, transfers, flights, and train rides. Thousands of dollars, but hey, who knows when we might get to vacation as our foursome again. To save some money, I booked flights to Amsterdam and from Paris on Icelandair, with one-stop in Reykjavik.
We were supposed to fly out Wednesday night. Our 8:50 flight to Reykjavik was delayed 15 minutes, then an hour, then canceled due to a faulty part related to the fuel line that made the plane fail a fuel test. To our disbelief, we rode home from the airport 5 hours after arriving.
Our flight was rescheduled for Thursday - yesterday - at 7:50pm. It was then delayed until 9pm. My son says he already knew the outcome. The new part they got for the same plane was not functioning. The plane failed the fuel test again. Twice. Our flight was cancelled again. Again we were in a Lyft ride home after 5+ hours at the airport.
This is high travel season. Flights are booked to the hilt. Icelandair scheduled us for a Delta flight direct to Amsterdam on Saturday evening, arriving Sunday. Our 5 nights in Amsterdam will turn to 2. I've rescheduled transfers and lost funds on everything we had booked.
I'm reaching for the tenacity to wipe the slate clean to fully enjoy our very short time in Amsterdam and our time in Paris. Fun memories await creation. We are lucky to have this opportunity. We are grateful for our health, our safety, and the privilege we have to do this, and to not be ruined by it.
I'm not asking for sympathy. Just empathizing with your fabulous tale of tenacity, Cathy, and working my resilience. Maybe a short story of my own will emerge from this. Or at least a marketing newsletter featuring Icelandair!
This sounds like it deserves a short story AND a newsletter. Perhaps a limited series in which every episode is another day in the airport? Hope you're able to transition from travel stress to travel bliss the minute you taste/see/smoke something amazing in Amsterdam!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm saving it. It could happen. The newsletter will of course be some angle on the marketing implications, but the short story would be fun to play with from a personal point of view. Fingers crossed for today's flight!