How Much Fun is the Denver Airport

I just asked Shell what the subject for a blog posting should be. She responded with the above title, so there you go.

This all started with our return from our latest adventure to Colorado Springs for a Family Reunion. After arriving to the airport on Sunday, we checked in at the Untied counter for our boarding passes and trying to get through security after quite a wait (due to the weekend after the 4th). By the time we were able to accomplish these 2 tasks, we walking to our gate. When I noticed that our flight was “CANCELLED”.

So we proceeded to the customer service for rebooking. After waiting again, for some time, they were going to route us through Portland on another airline. Of course this did not work out, since they had troubles printing the tickets before the flight left. Of course we went through 1 manager, 3 employees, and 1 trainee. Ending up with no other flights available for this day, had to be the next day was the only option.

Well that brings me today as I sit in the airport with plenty of time to write this post. Again today we arrive at the airport with the plans to fly through Seattle to get home around 7 PM. Waiting for the plane we noticed that it was delayed by 20 minutes. No problem we would still have plenty of time for the next layover. As time past waiting for our flight, it was delayed and delayed. Eventually, we knew that would not be able to reach our connection in time.

So again, we proceeded back to customer service and ended up with our 4th flight plan in 2 days. This time a direct flight home at 9 PM, which is okay with me since we reduced our flying time by a couple of hours. But now we are waiting for a flight that has not even showed up on the departure screen.

So far we have walked through almost every shop in the terminal and still have 5 hours until our flight. I’m thinking on ridding the train around to waste some time before I go crazy.

Bringing me to my suggestions (aka the point of the story) for all my 3 readers, DO NOT FLY THROUGH DENVER. This is also the airport that caused a struggle to get home for Christmas last year. I had to be re-routed from Baltimore through Chicago, Seattle, and then drive from home.