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I Traveled During The Holidays And Had No Delayed Flights Or Unruly Passengers

December 29, 2021 by kevinwilkerson Leave a Comment

Knoxville TN’s McGhee Tyson airport




By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger

When I had safely arrived at my final destination – Knoxville, TN, to visit my family for Christmas – several people asked me how my flight was from San Diego.

I provided a one-word answer that spoke a thousand words: “uneventful.”

That’s pretty much my standard answer when I fly with no disruptions or difficulties, but I know how lucky I was to have things work out that way.

After all, airlines were canceling thousands of flights – 1,200 on my return date alone – due to weather and staffing issues related to the new COVID Omicron variant sweeping across the world and thru the airline industry.

Thankfully, I managed to escape all the chaos happening at airports and to other passengers in other places. I was most concerned about flight crews calling in sick with Omicron but fortunately that did not materialize during my travels.

And since I was flying the “Southern route” as I call it – I make it a point to avoid wintertime connections in any midwestern or northern cities to minimize weather issues – so all that snow pounding half the country was not a factor in any of my routes.

I also did not see, nor did I experience, any unruly passengers in the four airports I traveled through – San Diego, Dallas/Fort-Worth, Knoxville and Charlotte – or on any of my four flights.

In fact, it was just the opposite on the planes, for passengers were in a jovial mood, joking around with the flight crew and saying “thank you” a lot. All my flights were on American Airlines.

I did have one potentially close call, tho.

American’s flight from Knoxville to Charlotte arrived late so it was not unloading passengers until after the scheduled departure time. I had a buffer zone of about an hour and a half layover and got a bit concerned about having to rush to get that connection, something that was heightened a bit after we landed and sat still for 15 minutes while the short-staffed airline located a gate agent to open the airplane’s door.

But I made the connection and after my looooong walk through four of Charlotte’s terminals to get to the San Diego gate – this airport should really invest in a skytrain or something – even had time to stop for a beer. It was early evening and my flight was at 8:45 but unfortunately, all the bars closed at 8 p.m.

Well, I would rather go without a drink than be stranded in an airport with a canceled flight.

Fortunately, all my flights were “uneventful.”



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