ozbeachbabe
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What's the best or worse excuse you've heard someone give for missing a flight?
Don't know about the best but probably one of the dumbest reasons I heard about was last week when there was a fail to board pax who had checked in at the airport with a bag (ie not OLCI) then vanished completely when the flight was due to depart.
Airport cleaner found his boarding pass left on lounge near checkin and handed it in.
Pax was subsequently offloaded & bag removed from aircraft hold. Nil contact number for pax due to being a travel agent booking & also after hours so agency not open so seemed like he'd dropped off the face of the earth.
About 6 hours later pax returns to the airport for a booking on afternoon flight to same destination and when quizzed about where he'd been earlier responded "I didn't feel very well so I went home....I had a hangover". Was given his bag back to checkin again and duly checks in for the second time that day & subsequently boards his new flight without incident.
His father had paid for a new ticket which is probably just as well as I don't think he would've had a snowballs chance in hell of using his other one having caused a delay to his previous flight.
Don't know about the best but probably one of the dumbest reasons I heard about was last week when there was a fail to board pax who had checked in at the airport with a bag (ie not OLCI) then vanished completely when the flight was due to depart.
Airport cleaner found his boarding pass left on lounge near checkin and handed it in.
Pax was subsequently offloaded & bag removed from aircraft hold. Nil contact number for pax due to being a travel agent booking & also after hours so agency not open so seemed like he'd dropped off the face of the earth.
About 6 hours later pax returns to the airport for a booking on afternoon flight to same destination and when quizzed about where he'd been earlier responded "I didn't feel very well so I went home....I had a hangover". Was given his bag back to checkin again and duly checks in for the second time that day & subsequently boards his new flight without incident.
His father had paid for a new ticket which is probably just as well as I don't think he would've had a snowballs chance in hell of using his other one having caused a delay to his previous flight.
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