I'm writing this from KL now...I have just arrived after more than 7 hours (!) of delayed flights and reschedules. Our flight was due to depart at 2:05 pm today (technically yesterday) and an hour later, it got rescheduled to 4:35 pm. It's just a two hour retiming so we decided to wait it out, not knowing of the unholy wait that...er, awaits us.
The flight was then further rescheduled to 6:45 pm and dinner vouchers were issued out to the (rightfully) irate flyers. The announcement for our ill-fated flight was then retimed to 7:30 pm just before we decided to go out for dinner instead of eating the slops usually served at airport cafeterias.
The reason cited was an "engineering failure" in the plane we're scheduled to board and we decided that two hours couldn't justify going out so we went to the cafeteria and got our MAS sponsored food. There's a rather Draconian rule that says meal vouchers are only redeemable for a dish of plain rice with two choices of meat/vegetables or fried kueh tiaw and ONE meat or vegetable.
I went for the fried kueh tiaw and a piece of fried fish. It was then that the announcement was made that the our flight was further delayed until 8:40 pm. I was practically fuming at this point, as were most of the other passengers. It is UNACCEPTABLE to have someone wait that long and its bad taste to give out staggered delay reports instead of announcing straight out what time the fucking plane is going to fly.
I went to the counter to make my feelings heard and the attendant tried to placate me with another meal voucher. I just ate an hour ago, for fucks sake!
However, I took it anyway and redeemed it for char kueh tiaw (again) with beef stew. ;)
The flight was (yes, you guessed it) DELAYED again to 9:40 pm. That's 5 (five) consecutive flight reschedules. (!!!) It wasted a good 7 hours of our time. It was well past midnight when we finally arrived in KL. I have a meeting at 9 am tomorrow in Bangsar and it's nearly 3 am now.
The only thing that stopped me from running amok and start killing people was this friendly and cute doe eyed MAS attendant...
Mmm...MAS attendant...
/me drools... ;)
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