There are two rules when refueling aircraft on the ground with passengers:
- We are refueling, so the passengers must disembark.
- We are refueling, so the passengers must remain on the aircraft.
We got into Reagan late—3+30 late. In fact, we got in about a half hour after I was supposed to be at the meeting I was to attend. Fortunately, my buddy Juan was cruising the Reagan parking lot and swooped in just as I come out the door and we are off to the traffic jam that was the 14th Street Bridge.
Made it to Roosevelt Hall, made my comments and then a small reception and Juan passed me to my friend from the late 1980s, Dail Turner, who took me back to Reagan, where I found my flight was slipped from an 8:15 PM departure to about 10:25. I checked in and two flight changes latter I was out at about 7:30 PM.
And thanks to Juan and Dail.
Home safe and glad for it.
Regards — Cliff
1 comment:
Years of commuting in and out of NY/Philadelphia/DC from Boston taught me never to commit to an airplane ride if there is even the slightest hint of weather in the forecasts for any one of those cities' horizons. The quantity of equipment shuttling between them guarantees delays everywhere once there is a delay anywhere, and once the airlines have you, they have you. (It was my fourth Laguardia rental car for the drive back to Logan to retrieve my car there in order to then make the drive back to the home that I passed an hour before that which did it for me).
I feel your pain.
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