I’m typing this from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, as the final leg of my two week 7 planes journey. it went suprsingly well, except for a couple of minor disaster on the way, as it happens usually on all my flights.
What went wrong this time, you ask? When I tried to check-in they told me, I’m not in the system. Further running around the airport showed that someone from my air career canceled my flight ticket back, on the day I started my trip to New York (about two weeks), for a ticket that was bought one month earlier.
Luckily this time, it just meant that I had to pay 100€ to get myself back on the plane, together with one hour adrenaline rush to figure out correct bureaucratic process just to do that.
This is not the first time something like this happened to me, basically every time I fly I can expact that something will happen, usually not catastrophic but annoying and very time consuming. They’ll figure out something is wrong with the ticket, need some extra money, want to shift your plane route, etc.
The advice in this case is really simple, and something that saved me many times my flight:
Be at the Airport at least 3 hours early.
Airports have great coffee shops and bookstores and extra adrenaline rush is not worth your youth.
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