I have a history of missing flights... my job creates issues that cause me to be up to a day out (my worst) when checking in...
I have been driving into ROK from the Bowen Basin and noticed a QF flight leaving, I commented that I didn't think there was a flight that early in the arvo to my travelling mate - we went to check in and got told we had missed the flight by 1/2 an hour...
Arrived at Arlanda for a 7pm to LHR - oops it was a 7am - my mistake when entering the flight info into my PDA
BNE - arrived (knowingly about an hour late because I slept in) expecting to plead and beg for a new flight, LOL, flight had been delayed by 2 hours and got on...
A couple of months back, missed 3 flights in one day - admittedly the same destination 3 times - SYD/MEL
#1 - stuck in meeting, PA came in for something and was shocked I was still there, lost that bottom of the bucket (fare class) ticket, #2 - replacement for #1, still in same meeting, again time had gotten away and there was no way I would make it to the airport - fare lost again! (thanks FC Corp), #3, crash on M3 (or which ever motorway), Y class fare this time, made a call and pushed the flight out to 10PM - I changed again at the airport... bad day (and expensive!)
My best wasn't actually a miss - I had been out on a friends 42' big game boat for 6 or so days fishing and diving off great barrier island (NZ) and had planned to fly from Tryphena (GBI) to AKL then AKL/MEL. This cut a bit over a day on the boat, but after 6 days afloat with your best friends, a 42' launch is nowhere big enough, so it was a welcome relief.
I alighted at Port Fitzroy and hitched a ride to where I thought I had to go to - after a hour or so of no activity at the airstrip, I was getting worried, so I hiked up the road about 2km to the top of a hill to get mobile phone coverage, and called the airport. I was in the wrong place, they told me to sit tight and they would send someone to pick me up.
The first sign of life I saw while waiting for my ride was an old red plane similar to a piper training aircraft except a long nose... I watched him land on the grass runway and returned my focus to the road not wanting to miss my ride... LOL, the plane pulled up behind me and I was to to climb on board, this was my ride
One of the scariest flights I have ever had, but I loved every second of it...!
Mr!