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RE: Crikey! My flight to SteemFest has been cancelled!

in #steemfest7 years ago (edited)

Budget airlines go bust left, right and center. Berlin Air is one of them. Forget the "cheap" flights (unless you are a gambler) and go with the established airlines. British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa etc, they would all get you there, though a bit more expensive (but not always, as I have found out). The only other problem you could encounter is a pilot strike or some such thing. I missed one by a hair a couple of years ago going overseas. I was on one of the last flights - and hoping the strike would be over when I had to return 3 weeks later (it was). Another problem I ran into in Seattle last year, when Delta Air computers crashed. I could not get the boarding pass for the flight I was booked on, as did a long queue of other passengers - so I assume the plane left half empty while people were waiting in line to get boarding done manually.
In Seattle, there is a desk especially for Microsoft employees. I don't know what it was, but I asked a attendant there - they seemed like they had absolutely nothing to do, while the rest of the airport was a holy mess - but the nice lady there had pity on me and although I was not with Microsoft, she managed to re-book me onto British Airways - the great thing about this was that I arrived in Paris for my connection sooner than I would have with Delta!

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When we checked the flights we had two real options and they were both budget- Monarch seemed the slightly less budget so we went with them. Doh!

You didn't say where your departure point is - Lisbon is not some outpost on a remote island, there are, at least from my end, a lot of connections. https://www.expedia.co.uk/lp/flights/vie/lis/vienna-to-lisbon
well, I must live in a privileged area - you say train takes days: Vienna to Lisbon is a little over 7 hours. https://www.cleartrip.com/tourism/routes/ii/vienna-to-lisbon-route.html

Thanks! My husband sorted it, we are going to fly from London and come back on a later date from Lisbon. Just need to sort out accommodation now.

my bad about the train, I was wrong - that was only the first leg of the trip, lol - I thought it sounded short, so I double checked. I traveled on trains in Spain, and the worse part of the trip is buying the tickets (language, you think there is anyone there that speaks English?) idk Portugal, maybe their public transport is by ox cart.

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I did miss a flight once, I was connecting in Madrid and missed the flight, which meant an overnight stop over in Madrid. I try now to book flights with a longer connection time- it may be an extra couple of hours on my trip but it does mean I'm not frantically rushing through airports trying to find the right gate, and no panics if my flight is late arriving.

makes sense. I had experiences where I am running literally for a mile through a terminal to catch the connection. Worse yet if your connection is cross-border and you have to queue up for customs .....

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