Okay, so I’ve already eliminated Airtran from the list of airlines I will ever fly with again but after today I have another one to add to the list. American Airlines. So I’ve been sitting here at O’hare for something like 5 hours now. As I’ve just found out my technical status is a ‘missed connection’, whatever the fuck that really is supposed to mean. All I know is that I made it to Laguardia an hour and fifteen minutes BEFORE my flight. Though my alcohol induced haze I know I breifly caught some mention about ’standby’ when I checked in of course it didn’t register until I made it back here in Chicago.

The details still don’t make sense but apparently I was moved into ’standby’ status on the flight I paid for over three weeks ago. Because American Airlines apparently over sold their flight (WTF?) it was full and they bumped me from my own damn flight. After being dicked around and having walked across O’hare more than once, I finally found a competent employee (gasp). She attempted to explain that somewhere along the line I got fucked. Well, duh. So after being bumped from two other flights I’m still sitting here waiting for a flight to leave for Minneapolis that isn’t oversold so I can have a seat.

There really are two things that greatly piss me off about this situation. First, how the fuck do you oversell a flight? People pay money up front so they have a reserved seat. Are people just in the habit of dishing out $300-800 and ditching their flight? Apparently this must happen so frequently that AA has incorporated it into their business model. I understand how someone might oversell candy bars or computers or something where they simply can’t keep up with demand. A plane, however, has a fixed number of seats which are reserved which people paid for in advance. Secondly, it completely ruins plans I had to hang out with a friend and that just makes me sad. I was really looking forward to it all day and now it’s completely out the window. Well shit.

I guess I’ll still wait and see if I ever get back. Of course the irony of this is that now that I mentioned the airlines fucking name Google Ads will probably post an ad for them on the site. Travelling home just hasn’t been my luck lately, I think next time I’ll just stay.