Manchester: Far Far Away
Well, as I always say, Manchester is like totally remote.
An exhausted airline passenger was yesterday recovering from a nightmare journey from France that lasted more than 30 hours and took in two coaches, two aircraft and a taxi.
Andy Parson also passed through five airports by the time he completed a trip that should have taken only two hours.
His problems began the evening before he was due to catch an Aer Arann flight from Angers when the airline rang him to say that due to difficulties with air traffic control its whole service had been switched to Nantes.
Staff promised to get him to the new airport free of charge, and arranged a coach which took 90 minutes to arrive.
At Nantes, Mr Parson checked in, but due to a mistake by handling agents he was sent to the wrong gate. By the time the error was noticed the aircraft had taken off with a single passenger on board.
Mr Parson, who was in France for a school exchange visit, had been at Nantes for five hours before Aer Arann flew him to Cork, where he stayed overnight in a hotel.
The following morning he was taken on a two-hour, 75-mile taxi ride to Waterford. But there he learnt that his planned flight home had been cancelled due to bad weather.
He was next put on a coach to Dublin. This leg of the journey took three hours to complete, but at least he arrived in time to catch an Aer Lingus flight back to Manchester.
Mr Parson said, "I feel I should be compensated, though if Aer Arann offers free flights I might ask for a pencil or key ring instead."
The time that he spent on this trip is actually enough for him to go to Sydney, having a stopover at Singapore, and even doing some sightseeings there (not much to see in Singapore anyway...)
An exhausted airline passenger was yesterday recovering from a nightmare journey from France that lasted more than 30 hours and took in two coaches, two aircraft and a taxi.
Andy Parson also passed through five airports by the time he completed a trip that should have taken only two hours.
His problems began the evening before he was due to catch an Aer Arann flight from Angers when the airline rang him to say that due to difficulties with air traffic control its whole service had been switched to Nantes.
Staff promised to get him to the new airport free of charge, and arranged a coach which took 90 minutes to arrive.
At Nantes, Mr Parson checked in, but due to a mistake by handling agents he was sent to the wrong gate. By the time the error was noticed the aircraft had taken off with a single passenger on board.
Mr Parson, who was in France for a school exchange visit, had been at Nantes for five hours before Aer Arann flew him to Cork, where he stayed overnight in a hotel.
The following morning he was taken on a two-hour, 75-mile taxi ride to Waterford. But there he learnt that his planned flight home had been cancelled due to bad weather.
He was next put on a coach to Dublin. This leg of the journey took three hours to complete, but at least he arrived in time to catch an Aer Lingus flight back to Manchester.
Mr Parson said, "I feel I should be compensated, though if Aer Arann offers free flights I might ask for a pencil or key ring instead."
The time that he spent on this trip is actually enough for him to go to Sydney, having a stopover at Singapore, and even doing some sightseeings there (not much to see in Singapore anyway...)
posted by Lenny at 01:05
1 Comments:
Manchester's not that far at all. It's so near London, and has the most beautiful buildings, nicest ppl, cleanest street, fantastic night life, friendliest neighbours etc.... Oh hold on, that's only in my dreams.. hahha. Seriously Manchester's not too bad after all... it only has 5000-10000 murder cases a day only. LOL
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