The sun sets over my first day in MelbourneSo I'm pretty sure I was told a lie...
Arrangements are made to put me on a very indirect route through Brisbane leaving two hours earlier than the original. This means a drive from Tauranga to Auckland at 3am, having to battle not being able to sleep in airports and on aeroplanes for 12 hours, and not enjoying the fact my carbon offsets are probably irrelevant now that I'm flying twice as far.
But here is my conspiracy theory: The flight I was actually booked on was cancelled because it was empty. Fact: the flight I was rescheduled on for was only 2/3's full. If I was the only person rescheduled on this flight then it means I was probably the only one on the original flight, or if there were lots of people on it from the other flight then it was obviously filling up one plane instead of taking two empty planes.
Question is though, if the plane wasn't just empty, then what was wrong with it, and what's wrong with the rest of Pacific Blue's planes????
The phone rings at 8.30pm the night before my Melbourne flight. "Hello, your Pacific Blue flight to Melbourne has been cancelled due to engineering problems."
Arrangements are made to put me on a very indirect route through Brisbane leaving two hours earlier than the original. This means a drive from Tauranga to Auckland at 3am, having to battle not being able to sleep in airports and on aeroplanes for 12 hours, and not enjoying the fact my carbon offsets are probably irrelevant now that I'm flying twice as far.
But here is my conspiracy theory: The flight I was actually booked on was cancelled because it was empty. Fact: the flight I was rescheduled on for was only 2/3's full. If I was the only person rescheduled on this flight then it means I was probably the only one on the original flight, or if there were lots of people on it from the other flight then it was obviously filling up one plane instead of taking two empty planes.
Question is though, if the plane wasn't just empty, then what was wrong with it, and what's wrong with the rest of Pacific Blue's planes????
My boss has a similar theory. His Pacific Blue flights are cancelled constantly and he always calls bullshit.
ReplyDeleteargh scary! I'm flying pacific blue to melbz oct 31st, wish me luck!!
ReplyDeletemind you, wud anyone want to be the only person on the plane?? un-nerving...