How can a two hour and 20 minute flight take five hours?
Electronic check in:
 17 minutes |
Manual check-in after electronic check-in can’t find everyone’s name:
| 34 minutes |
Airport security:
| 37 minutes |
Pat down, additional questioning after dad was randomly flagged as a potential terrorist (which the kids thought was funny, but the parents couldn’t believe):
| 11 minutes |
Flight Delay (cause unknown, but “kid in control tower” incident suspected):
| 40 minutes |
Actual flight:
| 2 hours 20 minutes |
Wait on tarmac (after pilot announces “We’ll be taxing to the gate in just a few minutes”):
| 17 minutes |
Wait at gate:
| 7 minutes |
Wait at baggage claim:
| 34 minutes |
Wait at baggage claim “lost luggage” department:
| 19 minutes |
Time-out for deep, calming breaths:
| 6 minutes |
Finding car in long-term parking after losing slip of paper with level and section number:
| 22 minutes |
Explaining why there won’t be any more family trips until the memory of this last one has faded away completely:
| Weeks |