Friday, October 5, 2012

It continues!

My saga in Maine is over; I'm back in Manhattan and very happy to be here.  No basement floods, no mildew, and best of all no rain.  We had five inches of rain in Columbia Falls before I left, and four were in my basement.  Unfortunately, the bad luck followed me to the airport.  Turned in the car with no problem, but encountered lots of rain the last 60 miles and got lost in Portland.  But I was so happy to have arrived safely and didn't even flinch when the Alamo car bill was $600 more than my initial calculation.  My plane was leaving at 5:00 and very soon I'd be home.  Hah!

My flight was cancelled, apparently at noon when I was on the road--took me a bit more than four hours to drive from downeast Maine to Portland.  When I asked what Delta planned to do, I was told I'd have to stay overnight in the airport, or they could fly me to Detroit and from Detroit into LaGuardia, with projected arrival at midnight. The logic eluded me--other flights were going to LaGuardia, and in fact one had taken off at 1:00, one hour after they sent me an email that my flight was cancelled.  Yet, when I wanted a hotel, I was told the airline wasn't responsible if the problem was weather, but weather was a problem only for my flight, apparently.

I did stay at a hotel, with a voucher from Delta, but only after a rather angry display from me at the counter.  And, of course, I couldn't check my bag, which weighted about 40 lbs but had to carry it around until the next day.  They gave me a $20 meal allowance to cover three meals.  And the only restaurant it could be used in, had nothing less than $10.99 on the menu other than fries.  And then the person who was to pick me up, couldn't do it the following morning so I had another $40 bill for a taxi from LaGuardia to Manhattan and a $10 taxi fare from the hotel to Portland airport.

Delta is off my list except when it is the only airline flying to my destination.  But I'm home and today I plan to take my MacBook to a repair shop to see if it can be fixed.  If anyone reading wants a house in Maine, I can give them a very good price.

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