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In Case Of Flight Delays…..
Written by ShikoPS: This article has nothing to do with the Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Ash that has now become the excuse for even not going to visit your grandma upcountry.
You’ve been cooling your heels at the airport waiting lounge for 2 hours and just when you can hardly wait to board, KQ announces a 3 hour flight delay. What to do?
- Congregate and harrass the nearest hapless person in uniform. It could be an airline staffer, an airport staffer, a cleaning services staffer……
- Say how some of you are CEOs of some of the biggest organizations in the country.
- Sit calmly like a 2 hour wait plus a 3 hour delay pisses off everyone else except you. After all life is too short to be pissed off and being pissed off never made anyone feel better.
- Read. No reading material? Browse the airport bookstore. Take time off your livid state and read ‘A Guide To The Acacias Of Africa…..’
- Keep muttering you should have taken the bus.
- Watch parliamentary debate on the draft constitution. You’ll have to read their lips or do something else clever – the telly will be on near mute.
- Its happened. Rant and get over it. Sit back and observe people. Take out a notepad and scribble things. You never know, your scribblings could turn out to be an article.
- Pace!
- Genuinely worry about missing your connecting flight.
- Drink copious amounts of bad coffee and eat lots of bad sandwiches. Just be careful not to end up here.
- Red the paper again. This time read even those pages.
- Strike rapport with fellow passengers and bash the airline for operating like a matatu.
- Remind everyone how pissed off you are.
As for the airlines, strike the fear of God in the passengers by citing technical problems in the plane.
In the meantime, may I take your order?
By Kellie on Apr 20, 2010
A Guide to Acacias Of Africa? Hazard guess.That book wasn’t written by an African.
Eyjafjallajökull (I swear I didn’t copy paste, I know how it’s spelt)has been very good for NBI hotel operators, and I must say Europeans are the best behaved clients. So patient and kind!
By shikomsa on Apr 20, 2010
Kellie there’s quite a range apart from the acacias. Ruwenzori… Karamoja… Mammals of Africa…. I’ve a feeling you’re right about the authors.
At least there’s something good coming out of Eyjafjallajökull. (Ctrl C, Ctrl V). But now it should let up already.
By Our Kid on Apr 20, 2010
Tell you that volcanic eruption in Ayeyoufuckallanditscool (Ctrl C, Ctrl V) is really a dampener! It almost made football be cancelled this midweek!
If it was in Kenya, am sure it would have taken about a month to discover that the volcano has erupted (like they do when they give us news of people in Turkana being attacked and the TV shows you a month later!).. am telling you Kenya is so Nairobi-oriented, it is quite annoying!
By the way, if you do any of those things at JKIA, you will be arrested!
By shikomsa on Apr 20, 2010
OurKid Ayeyou-what! hahahaha. Wherever did you copy paste that from?!
By Tamaku on Apr 20, 2010
Is it just me, surely the irony of a volcano in Iceland?
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By Nyambura on Apr 22, 2010
This just made my morning
and oh, I’ll have coffee; make it a cappuccino with a spot of sugar syrup. Have a fab day
By Militant on Apr 22, 2010
Lol! You should’ve seen the lines at JKIA yesterday, but atleast flights are leaving now…
By Sultana on Apr 25, 2010
volcanic ash as an excuse not to visit your grandparents? ridiculous. such people should be disowned promptly. you know for some reason i do enjoy staying at airports, as long as it’s not due to a delay or cancellation. i remember having an overnight wait in france one time and whipping out my mini duvet, sleeping gown and a pillow then spreading myself on some chairs at the waiting lounge. that was a seven hour undisturbed sleep no question asked. only make sure not to oversleep and miss your flight.
By shikomsa on Apr 26, 2010
Seomoz say hi to your crazy russian friend.
Nyambura thanks and karibu capuccino. Your site too was quite a read I got from @willpress. Wondered how I’d never come there.
Militant those are more understandable coz of the ash and all. but some airlines are slowly making delayed flights a habit.
Sultana hehehe, never mind they’re going upcountry by bus. To think of it, my list there does not include ‘sleep’!.
By shikomsa on Apr 26, 2010
Tamaku no it’s not just you. And the fact that it can paralyse so much this far and wide. I’m thinking if circumstances were reversed, am erupting volcano here (Africa) would only affect the immediate district….. ok maybe more.
By seo on Apr 26, 2010
Some great infomation here keep up the good work. I cannot really leave a more constructive comment as i’m abit out of my deph but i will be checking back here for further updates. Thanks you.
By Digzer on Apr 27, 2010
Lol Girl! I like the get wored up – calm down – get worked up again tone of the advice. It’s a cycle me and my Cocacola CEO friends can’t get out of
By shikomsa on Apr 27, 2010
Digzer we and the coke CEOs will have to work harder and get to a point where we can be chartering planes.
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By Cee on Apr 27, 2010
Wanjiku, I hope the 5hour waiting is not for a 40min flight cause then you feel like starting the journey wakupate mbele…..Thanx for the list, I always make life easier and sleep mpaka nisikiea last call for Cee….hehehehe…
By shikomsa on Apr 27, 2010
Cee yes it’s for a 40 minute hop to the next city!
By Cee on Apr 27, 2010
Ati wat??? then wat excuse did they give? Hiyo ash? But I hear it happens often for flights from Msa to Nai, and if there’s no delay mnafika kati kati they say ndege imeisha mafuta
By shikomsa on Apr 27, 2010
Cee you lie. ati imeisha mafuta. Lol.
True Msa-Nrb is notorious. Excuse is technical problems. Ash we’ll have to wait for Mt. Kilimanjaro to spew.
By Cee on May 8, 2010
Haiya,
hiyo story ya mafuta I’ve heard a bit too often, you even wonder. 45mins flight and they didn’t fuel enough kutoka Msa?
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By woolie on Aug 4, 2011
It takes a good article to generate great comments. Volcanos in iceland – mother nature’s sense of humour
By Shiko-Msa on Aug 29, 2011
Woolie thanks. Funny how a pissed off state can generate a good at all article.
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