Prenez trois filles : corpulence moyenne, très fatiguées, chargée chacune de bagages pesants, assez distraites, et, il faut le dire, pas vraiment douées avec les avions...
Prenez un aéroport : immense, blindé de gens, avec un passage à la douane très trèèèèès long et des gens qui donnent des indications qui sont l'inverse de l'inverse de l'inverse de l'inverse de ce que disent les autres...
Prenez une compagnie russe (Aeroflot) : avec des russes qui parlent le russe, pas très aimables, et pas très compréhensifs...
Vous obtenez un ratage d'avion assez stupide (à trois minutes près) et qui va vous coûter un bras... Pas de billet de dépannage, pas de remboursement (merci les russes !)... Il est alors 9h35...
Prenez maintenant Air France : des gens sympathiques, prêts à rendre service (et à gueuler sur des russes quitte à se faire raccrocher à la gueule)... et vous obtenez un billet pour le lendemain en vol direct d'une durée de 12h... Il est 16h...
Résultat des courses : départ le 26 septembre à 11h arrivée à 6h le 27 à Tokyo (heure locale, donc 23h en France). Nous avons donc perdu une journée, des centaines d'euros, une nuit à l'auberge... mais bientôt nous en rirons ah ah ah !
Comme dirait Simon Astier dans Hero Corp : "Ca va être sympa je crois"
Title : How missing your plane OR I'll never drink Vodka anymore !
Take three girls : medium build, very tired, heavy baggages for each one, quite distracted, and it must be said, not really gifted with planes ...
Take an airport : immense, full of people, with a passage through customs very long and people who give indications which are the inverse of the inverse of the inverse of the inverse of what others say. ..
Take a Russian company (Aeroflot) : with Russians who speak Russian, not very friendly, and not very comprehensive ...
You stupidely fail your plane (about three minutes too late) and that will cost you an arm ... No troubleshooting ticket, no refund (thank you Russian!) ... It is then 9:35AM ...
Now take Air France: nice people, ready to help you (and to yell at the Russian by phone even if they hang out) ... and you get a ticket for the next direct flight (12 hours) ... It is 4PM ...
Result: 26 September starting at 11am arrival in Tokyo 27 September, 6AM (local time, so 11PM in France). We lost a day, hundreds of euros a night at the guesthouse ... but soon we'll laugh ah ah ah!
As Simon Astier says in Hero Corp: "It will be nice... I think"
Title : How missing your plane OR I'll never drink Vodka anymore !
Take three girls : medium build, very tired, heavy baggages for each one, quite distracted, and it must be said, not really gifted with planes ...
Take an airport : immense, full of people, with a passage through customs very long and people who give indications which are the inverse of the inverse of the inverse of the inverse of what others say. ..
Take a Russian company (Aeroflot) : with Russians who speak Russian, not very friendly, and not very comprehensive ...
You stupidely fail your plane (about three minutes too late) and that will cost you an arm ... No troubleshooting ticket, no refund (thank you Russian!) ... It is then 9:35AM ...
Now take Air France: nice people, ready to help you (and to yell at the Russian by phone even if they hang out) ... and you get a ticket for the next direct flight (12 hours) ... It is 4PM ...
Result: 26 September starting at 11am arrival in Tokyo 27 September, 6AM (local time, so 11PM in France). We lost a day, hundreds of euros a night at the guesthouse ... but soon we'll laugh ah ah ah!
As Simon Astier says in Hero Corp: "It will be nice... I think"