A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.....

[NM]

The main limitation being changing the rotation period of the earth to match the new time. Or perhaps people can adjust to 2.3 sunrises everyday.

But other than that an entirely good idea

Nahh. Simpler solution is to define the Metric Second to be of different duration to the Imperial Second.

 

[medhead]

Nahh. Simpler solution is to define the Metric Second to be of different duration to the Imperial Second.

So there would be 4.33 metric seconds to one imperial second. That could work. perhaps a few perception issues comparing Bolt's 100m record to new 100m times ~28 seconds. But they'd learn the conversion in time

 

[BVT]

Most amusing.

I recently spent 4 hours at JFK waiting for a (delayed) flight because the hotel told me it would take over an hour to get to the airport, it took 20 mintes!

I haven't missed an OMG flight at 00:45, but I did arrive at check in 24 hours early once! CSA's much amused.

 

[straitman]

Which is exactly why we need to promote changing to the Metric Time System, with 100 seconds in a min, 100 mins in an hour, 10 hours in a half-day, and 10 days in a week (5 working days and 5 weekend days of course).

Who let you and your crazy theories out of the hospital again :?: :shock:

 

[medhead]

Most amusing.

I recently spent 4 hours at JFK waiting for a (delayed) .

See under metric time it would have only been ~33 minutes.

 

[straitman]

See under metric time it would have only been ~33 minutes.

Each minute would seem to take forever though :!:

 

[drewbles]

Most amusing.

I recently spent 4 hours at JFK waiting for a (delayed) flight because the hotel told me it would take over an hour to get to the airport, it took 20 mintes!

I haven't missed an OMG flight at 00:45, but I did arrive at check in 24 hours early once! CSA's much amused.

I did arrive a month early for a flight once.

Booked MEL-PER return, and they were spanning two months. Somehow, I managed to screw up the return flight to be the month after I wanted to really fly back.

Me: "I'm here for QF776 to MEL"
CSA: "Sorry sir I can't find your booking, go and see sales and they'll sort it out"
Sales: "Yes sir I have your booking for the 14th... of next month"
Me: *face palm*

$700 later I was home. Costly lesson (and only time i've ever done it).

 

[yohy?!]

I've shown up for check-in on a SYD-MEL with QF only to be told my booking was for the week after (that'll teach me to plan holidays after heavy nights out...).

Fortunately the check-in agent took pity and changed both legs at no charge (red e-deal:!....very impressed and wasn't expecting this at all.

 

[MatF]

I've booked and flown a day early, WGA-SYD-BNE.
I went on the Monday morning, but was supposed to be there on Tuesday morning.

I guess at least all the actual flight-related bits were right

 

[drewbles]

I've booked and flown a day early, WGA-SYD-BNE.
I went on the Monday morning, but was supposed to be there on Tuesday morning.

I guess at least all the actual flight-related bits were right

Oh and I rocked up a day late for a CHC-MEL flight that was a redemption with NZ with AN points many moons ago. The CSA took pity on me and changed my fare (and even let me keep my original J seat!).

 

[straitman]

It is good to see some good outcomes being posted.

 

[vertisol]

Probably half a dozen times I've turned up at Canberra airport ready to fly back to Sydney only to be told my booking's for the next day. Corporate travel tool defaults your return flight to the next day.. must always double check before confirming...

Each time I've cancelled the ticket and walked down to the AVIS desk. Get home around the same time luckily.

 

[nlagalle]

I know cabbies mean well, but sometimes their best of intentions can have far reaching effects as we've seen above.

Well certainly don't trust the cabbies here in Delhi! Some of the stories they spin is laughable!!

 

[possumFF]

Gee. And I always thought that cabbies and flight attendants knew everything.
Oz, you really know your stuff!

Has anyone here ever been given a bum steer with flight details from so called 'industry experts' that know just enough to be dangerous? Have heard a few beauties of late, some of which are below:

Scenario One
A cabbie telling people to get to the airport 2 hours before their 0700 flight DRW/CNS (QF1871) because it was "an international flight". Note to cabbie: Just because JQ happen to have an international flight DRW/CNS doesn't mean other flights can't be purely domestic.

These same people were flying to CNS to catch a flight CNS/SIN which just happened to go via DRW so had their travel agent in Europe been switched on, could've give them a whole day in DRW & departed for DRW/SIN non-stop @ 1610 instead!

Scenario Two
A SYD/DRW flight was late arriving in DRW by one hour, however due to the normal 2 hour turnaround there was still one hour to prepare a/c for the return flight DRW/SYD thus not affecting an on-time departure.

Stacks of people were strolling in dangerously close to the baggage close off time of minus 30 saying "the taxi driver told me the flight was running an hour late"!!! Note to cabbie: just because the inbound flight is late doesn't mean the outbound flight will be.

Scenario Three
A pax who missed her red eye JQ flight DRW/BNE because she thought 0145 on a Wed means go out to the airport Wed night (instead of Tue night). On arrival at the airport asks who she could complain to at JQ about having to buy another ticket.

At the time if you missed your flight by 24 hours they would charge a $70.00 change fee to move you to the next one (don't know whether this is still the case & I think it may have just been a 'local rule' due to DRW's red eye flights).

Airport staff: "who told you to purchase another ticket"
Pax: "The hotel did"

Scenario Four
A pax arrives at airport late October (after daylight savings kicked in) at 12.40am clutching an itinerary showing a departure of 0040 only to be told she'd missed her flight. "But the taxi driver told me the flight departed at 1.45am". Note to cabbie: even though there is no daylight savings in the NT, when it's on down south flights depart DRW one hour earlier so they still arrive at the same time down south.

Scenario Five
Pax arrives at airport at 1.00pm with itinerary for QF1197 DRW/MEL 0920/1355 saying "the guy at the hotel told me it was departing at 1.55pm" & what's worse apparently rang & confirmed it (where or with whom I don't know). Okay it was an adhoc flight due to the Western Bulldogs vs Port Adelaide AFL game so is not the norm, however it seems there were no shortage of armchair experts out there only too happy to offer their 2c worth of comments such as:

"no that's wrong QF don't fly non-stop to MEL", "you must be on Jetstar", "you must be on an international flight" or "you must be going via ADL".

By all means listen to what others say but most importantly trust your own judgement. If you are holding an itinerary that says in black and white the flights, dates & times, it can't not exist (well given the old cancellation here n there). At the very least double check your booking online or call the airline concerned.

Happy trails everyone.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Another one has just come to light:

Pax approaches an airline staff member near departure gates with an A4 itinerary (as opposed to a boarding pass) saying "this is all I need to board isn't it"?

When asked where their boarding pass was & if in fact they had checked in they replied "they told me downstairs this was all I needed".

When asked by the airline who had told them the 'information' they responded "the man at security"!

They were damn lucky they still had sufficient time to checkin otherwise the flight would have closed & they'd be trying to board an aircraft with nothing more than an itinerary.

Yes the above is a coulda shoulda woulda example but it still highlights how much faith people put on the opinion of others.