awful flight

We got to Atlanta International airport at around 12noon to find out that we could not check in because the self-service kiosk could not find out flight number. The reservation ticket we had says that our flight is a Northwest flight that is operated by Atlantic Southeast Airline but, we were told to go to a Delta counter. Lined up for about 10 minutes while bitching about how the airlines are screwing us up when a Delta airline assistant came by us and told us to go to the Business Class counter. Went there and we were told that the flight is there and he was surprised that we could not find it on the electronic kiosk. So he just gave us our boarding pass to Minneapolis, MN and told us that we just have to get to our gate at Minneapolis and we'll get the boarding pass from there.

Passed through the security in a breeze and had a quick lunch at Wendy's. Unfortunately, our flight was delayed due to tyre problems. About 45 minutes later, we were boarded onto the plane and it was moving towards the runway when we were told that we have to turn back due to air traffic. But 1o minutes later the flight captain announced that we'll be departing forMinneapolis. We didn't thought that we would make it for our next flight from Minneapolis to Lansing as we arrived at 4.15pm for the 4.45pm flight. We walked from Concourse E to Concourse B, which didn't look very far but it felt like the longest airport walkway ever. It's moments like this when I'm glad to have technology such as the speed walking thing (what do we call that anyway?). When we got to the gate, the flight attendant was kinda mean to us for not getting our boarding pass. We were all cranky and tired and that's what we get when we reached there. He didn't even want to look up for our names to check if we are on that flight on not. He just told us to wait until he finish boarding this plane so that he can check on the next flights. It was only until everyone has boarded and he realized that there are 5 empty seats that he started asking our names one by one.

I was so glad when we took off 10 minutes later than the supposedly departure time. I was overjoyed to go home. Unfortunately, when we got to Lansing Capital City Airport at 7.15pm as scheduled, I saw a rainbow when the captain announced that we are landing. BUT, before we got to land, the captain announced that we have to wait above the clouds because there was a thunderstorm. There were also lightning so we hard to circle above the clouds until it ceased. But after about 45 minutes of circling, the plane was running out of fuel so we had to detour to Kalamazoo. I thought that would not be so bad either since I can just rent a car and drive back and it would probably be about the same time as the plane is gonna take. But they wouldn't let us down due to security issue. So we just sat and bitch to each other in the plane. We were all hungry and even more upset by then. The air stewardess wasn't very helpful either because he just sat there. He could at least entertain us or something, which was what happened in Steph's plane when she was stucked in Detroit during the thunderstorm.

After another hour of waiting, we finally took of to Lansing. That was a very scary ride as we can see lightning flashing. They were not close by but it sure was scary when we're flying so high up. It didn't help that my stomach was feeling queasy too. When we landed at 9.45pm, it felt like that's the best thing that have happened to me for the entire day. It sure is not one of my best days. I hope I won't be having any problems on my way home to M'sia or when coming back here. I would be even more upset as I would be by myself instead of with a group of friends.

~tired~