Big early start to this morning:
Background: Youngest son booked a rewards flight to Singapore with Jetstar departing this morning 8.15am SYD - MEL connecting to Jetstar international flight 2 hours later. I was worried about the short connection but son quite blasé (obviously doesn't read AFF!) Son sends me a message at 4am received an SMS at 3.34am to say Jetstar cancelled the flight to Melbourne (I was already worried when he could not check in online yesterday). So he rings up, talks to a lady (I did ask where she was from, he had no idea where the accent was from )again not an AFF read everything person like his mother!) Complains she put him on hold for 5 mins (lol!) and then she says to him I can put you on the direct Sydney to Singapore flight departing 11.10am. Then puts him on hold again for 20 mins - he is texting me and complaining saying he might hang up. I say DON'T HANG UP! , she comes back on the line and says she will send through a new booking reference number. I say ask for the ticket pdf, don't let her off the line, he says don't stress mum I have a new booking reference. I try to tell him of all the horror stories I have read about, and he say well mum this is not one of them, and is getting quite cross with my nagging. Says he can see the flights in the app but no ticket number, so all good he might go back to sleep. I am now wide awake! I had transferred a lounge pass to him so I said you will probably lose that, he says I'll just cancel it and apply it to the new flight. I say I think it is 24 hours ahead of flight, next minute he says pass applied to new flight booking (lucky boy). Still no ticket sent through, he was getting tired of my questioning and now he was also wide awake, I say go to the airport 4 hours before, yes says he (of course didn't get there until 3 hours before). I don't hear anything from him for an hour or so, I'm doing mum stressing. Apparently went to the airport still no emailed ticket sent through tried to book in at the airport with the machine. To quote him: a woman walks past, takes my passport and came back with my ticket. He likes an aisle seat as he is very tall she says no its a middle seat in a bassinet row.
Finally sends me a picture of his breakfast in the lounge, says he will probably eat up as he lost his meal booking on the Jetstar flight. May even have a mimosa as "he's on holidays!" I look up the departing Jetstar flight, no Jetstar flight, its a Qantas flight I say, he says is it? He thought it would be a Jetstar flight. I say, so you will get a meal on the flight, free entertainment and no one reclining in front of you and row 23.
I say you have been very lucky, for this to all work out so well, with such short notice. He who has no idea what others have been through says "well they did cancel my flight, isn't that what they should do?" Yes I say with a big sigh! Have a great flight.
I am thinking is it too early for a whisky (for me)!!
show at Coward St continues full pace.
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