Deja vu, all over again....

Remember my blog a while back about our difficulties flying back from Memphis on United Airlines?

Well, consider this part deux - except on Delta.

Ang and Mia were headed to Memphis yesterday, and we dutifully showed up early. I was able to get a TSA Security Pass to help Ang through security and to the gate.

And so there we sat. And sat. First, it was a minor mechanical. Then, a monstrouse thunderstorm with serious lightning. Read: ramp shut down, can't fix the maintenance issue. Storm stops, supposedly fix the problem, and plane boards.

Now, at this point, it's about 6:15pm (for a 4:30pm departure). Ang's connection is 8:15pm in Atlanta, so we're getting a bit concerned. In the mean time, the 5:3opm departure is also boarding, and it turns out they push back from the gate first.

Being the good pilot's son, I decide to wait at the gate until the plane pushes back, just to make sure there aren't problems.

Well, problems there were. Some "other" issue popped up, so they deplaned. While 140 people lined up at the counter to get rebooked on other flights, I quickly asked a gate agent if we could just get Ang's bags and go on home (she was flying standby, and there was no way she'd get to ATL, much less MEM). The gate agent told us to see the baggage services, ask them to recall the bags, and we'd be set.

So, off we head to baggage claim, do our duty, and we decide to bring Ang and Mia home and I'll go back to the airport to fetch the bags.

To keep a long story from getting longer, the bags were sent to ATL (and subsequently on to MEM), so we were without her stuff last night. Thankfully, today's flights were wide open, no storms, and no mechanical issues. And Ang and Mia are happily in Memphis.

Whew.....