Have you ever attempted to figure out someone's flight information armed only with the arrival time and the airport?
It's not fun. Especially since you can't just call the airport and be like hi, what flights do you have coming in around such and such time. Nope, they make you call the airline. It would kind of help if you had the airline information, now wouldn't it?
Lucky for me (and for Shanti, when he gets here) Bradley's a fairly piddleshit little airport with a total of maybe 15 or so airlines servicing it. Still the prospect of having to call each of them and be like "um hi, I've got this problem . . ." was daunting. I also only had to call six before I got a "oh yeah, he's on that flight . . ." *bangs head on monitor.*
And before you ask, no, I couldn't have called him and asked.
It's not fun. Especially since you can't just call the airport and be like hi, what flights do you have coming in around such and such time. Nope, they make you call the airline. It would kind of help if you had the airline information, now wouldn't it?
Lucky for me (and for Shanti, when he gets here) Bradley's a fairly piddleshit little airport with a total of maybe 15 or so airlines servicing it. Still the prospect of having to call each of them and be like "um hi, I've got this problem . . ." was daunting. I also only had to call six before I got a "oh yeah, he's on that flight . . ." *bangs head on monitor.*
And before you ask, no, I couldn't have called him and asked.