Its almost 4 am and I just walked into the house from the airport. Ok Im lying, Ive been home for at least an hour. Come on people. Im not that sad. LOL.
Anyways this post should be taken as an official complaint against Swiss International Airlines. I would appreciate it if someone would bring it to their attention cos I cant be bothered. LOL
Anyways, the ticket was purchased by my sister online. She was in Muscat while I was in Dubai. So she smsed me the confirmation code and when I asked around in the airport, I was told to proceed directly to the check-in counter. So when I get there, I was informed that is it not possible to issue me the tickets as the owner of the credit card used has to be present in order to sign the receipt. How come the email confirmation didnt mention that?? Since its obvious she could purchase and pay for tickets that are not in her own name, why does she need to be present?? Anyways, I was forced to buy another ticket then and there. They promised the money will be refunded. Lets see if they then make another fuss.
Moving on, the flight was supposed to take off at 1030 pm and at ten oclock, the passengers are still sitting in the waiting area. Anyways, when we finally board, the flight attendants start counting us about a gazillion times. Obviously the flight is delayed. Apparently, a passenger bound to Muscat has gotten off the plane in Dubai or something like that. Basically there is a passenger that should be in the plane but isnt but their luggage is. So they count and count and count. And then count some more. As if magically the missing person will be seated. The pilot actually even drives the plane onto the runway thinking that this person will reappear. Finally, we get driven back to the airport and are made to sit for almost three hours until they try various different methods of counting and matching of name list to physical passengers in order to figure out the name of the missing passenger. When they finally do that, they have the issue of the passenger's luggage. We took off at 115 am.
Anyways, while everybody was waiting on the plane, most people were walking around stretching their legs or finding other comfortable seats. Since the plane was less than 50% occupied, the majority of the Business Class seats were empty. So I went and sat down in an empty seat listening to my ipod. The plane wasnt anywhere near moving as it was around midnight then. Additionally, I only got the courage to do that when I saw a Swiss Economy Class passenger doing it over half an hour before me and a stewardess was chatting with him. So I figured that they were cool with it since the plane was empty anyways. Not ten minutes from my butt touching that big Business Class seat passed ila someone came and asked me to return to my seat.
WTF?? I mean already there is an inconveniance to the passengers, the flight is almost empty, its been over a 2 hour wait and not even a glass of water was offered to us (it was much later) and still they are getting picky. Im not gonna eat the chair, Im just sitting until our fate is decided. Bastards. And why is it that the Swiss guy that boarded in Dubai as well wasnt told anything before??
Discoveries of the day:-
1. The Swiss are stupid
2. The Swiss are dumb
3. The Swiss are extremely biased
More dubai stories later
PS. I would also like to publicly and formally apologize to MD. I was supposed to call you when I got a chance but thats exactly it. I never did get a chance. I didnt do half the things I wanted to do and I was mostly busy with friends that came all the way down from Abu Dhabi to see me. Im sowwweeeeeee. Would have loved to meet u. Next time inshallah.
