September 27, 2014
Last evening a notice was received from United Airlines that
a significant fire in the FAA facilities early Friday had affected over 2000
flights in and out of Chicago and that flights could be rebooked without any
fees being charged. I decided to stick
with the flights I had and which had been renegotiated with UA earlier in the
week after they dropped my original flight from Chicago to Frankfurt. As of the time I left home, all my flights
were listed as being on-time. We left
the house at 6:30 am, I received my boarding passes at the UA kiosk after
scanning my passport, and breezed through TSA pre-check security. Our flight to Chicago was on time, but was
put into a hold for 30 minutes on the tarmac.
We departed within 30 minutes and proceeded on with a very smooth flight
to Frankfurt. The seat next to me was vacant
and this made getting some sleep (4 hrs.) much easier than it could have been.
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| Leaving Chicago |
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