Quote Originally Posted by 29palms View Post
And you can go overboard too buying up backup tickets. They take a long time to get the money back on them too.
True that! At current rate our tickets take around 2 months to refund

I always keep in mind plan B's and try and ticket myself as flex as possible. The amount of people I meet though who have no idea of the system or don't know what to do when something goes awry scares me. Like a companion at LAX who literally begged the staff to let her on the plane (wtf?).

I've been quite lucky I must say:
- WN plane air bridge reattached and two pax got off, freeing me up a seat as i'd happened to stay in the gate area (exit row too!)
- Made it out of STL intact when all of AA's MD80s got taken out for wire inspections
- Made the last flight outta LAX to get back to work
- Got on many a flight out of HKG when I had been told "no chance"

I enjoy the thrill