Everything went fine at the beginning. We left Dallas a little late, but the real fun began when we reached JFK. For those that don't know what's happening there, they have an entire runway that is shut down for repair. As you can imagine, this has caused some major disruptions to one of the nation's busiest aiports.
So, because of this airport couldn't find a landing pattern for us, we had to circle around for about 20 minutes. Then our flight's captain came over the PA system and announced that since we were running low on fuel, we were being diverted to La Guardia to refuel and then try for JFK again. Refueling took about 30 minutes. We tried to convince the students that we were going to miss our connection, so the people to people program office had arranged for us to spend the night in New York. We were going to tour the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, go to a Broadway production, etc. The kids were really getting excited. I think a couple were a tad upset that we were actually going to make our connection and head to Switzerland. Crazy kids!
We landed at JFK with no problem, then hurried to our gate for our next flight. Come to find out, they were holding the plane for us. We had 59 people on our DFW-JFK flight that were headed to Zurich.
We landed in Zurich about 2 hours late............
More to come
Kenna, your comment made me smile thinking about the boarder crossing from New South Wales into Victoria and how we convinced them to hold the passports up to the window....
ReplyDeleteBruce I totally forgot about that. We may have to try that when we cross a boarder here! That was classic!
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