“i need a ticket to Jakarta today”
“is there still a seat left on today’s flights?”
“put my name on the waiting list”
“ok i take that, wait a sec pls, i go get the money”
“that ticket is mine OK!”
hahaha
it sounds dramatic in english *lol*
i went to grand’s home town by train, arrived at Tugu Station, Yogyakarta. And a day before, i bought a return ticket for a flight on Monday the week after, departed from Adi Sutjipto Int’l Airport, Yogyakarta. The trip was well planned, don’t you think so too?
Then at the day of the return flight to Jakarta, i came to the airport an hour before the schedule, it was jammed in the city, so i couldn’t do check-in 2 hours before. When i got into the check-in counter, i saw that my airlines’s counter had this [CLOSED] sign… what?!
so i asked around the staffs there and they told me that…
“your plane has just departed”
eeeeeeeeeeeeeh?????
(ok skip the pale face and panic expression here)
The schedule was changed forward 2 hours.
(skip the !&%#^@#$@&^#$&@ expression here)
and that i wasn’t contact-able… (the cell fone was slightly fakd up so it was hard to get signal in the village).
o well i was tired by then and decided to give up. (duh i just missed the last flight of the day)
The next day, early morning i went to the rep. office of the airlines to find out a fact that all flights were full until tomorrow.
Having no other choice, i went back to the airport and start asking around for a ticket to fly that day.
Lucky, someone cancelled her flight and i got her seat
unfortunately the flight was scheduled at 4:40 pm, current time was still 10 am…
i couldn’t go out easily coz i had to carry a heavy bag -.-
Wah… spending a day at the airport was hell-ish, everything was expensive to kill the time. The small airport has became familiar. From Padangese resto, Dunkin Donuts, toilets, waiting rooms, front yard, parking lot, cars’ plate number (mostly Jakarta), even the people passing around.
Finally 4:40 pm.
But wait, i didn’t see the plane landing…
Ah it was late for an hour i heard
-.-
5:30 pm departure, 6:30 pm arrival at Soekarno-Hatta Int’l Airport, Cengkareng, Jakarta.
wew
moral lesson:
-not to underestimate the possibility of flight schedule changing forward
-not to forget confirming (and reconfirm if necessary) at least a day before the flight
-not to carry bags that are not suitable for moving around a lot
-not to be arrogant or be obnoxious and behave nice towards other people
-not to forget to pray to God
story ended. glad to be here.