Are you traveling now? I will have to try Hattie B next time I am in Tn.
I finished my trip on Sunday.
American Airlines were absolutely awful! They made me check my luggage in outside the door cuz they ran out of cabin space, then when I got to Montgomery, I had more than 24 hours of a luggage delay. There wasn't even anyone at the airport to talk to about it. Then I got an email from them with a "live" tracking page saying it would be delivered at 2.35am so I stayed up until then. Then nothing happened. So I waited in the morning as well (the email also said unless prior arrangements with the airline were made, deliveries after 11pm would be done the next morning, without saying whether prior arrangements were made). Nothing happened in the morning so I called. After waited for an hour, the staff member told me the company couldn't reach me, and somehow they didn't even try to email or update their tracking page. Then I had to wait that afternoon for the luggage too.
Then the bag was badly damaged! One of the corners was completely gone and it was actually just purchased last month! I called AA and they said I had to talk to airline staff. Then I went to Montgomery airport and they just asked me to take out all my stuff, I was like, but I have stuff in it and I obviously don't travel with an empty backup bag just in case you broke my luggage I never planned to even check in. Then they asked me to see if I could get a replacement bag in Nashville.
Then I went to Nashville and the staff said actually all she could do was to send the bag to their headquarters. I told her I didn't even live in the US and she asked me to call again. And finally after telling them all these, they asked for my details to process my claim (of barely $21).
Flying from Dallas to Montogomery was interesting too...After taxiing for like 10 minutes, the pilot suddenly realized that the cargo door was not closed and we had to go back (shouldn't he have caught it before we started moving?), then he said we might not have enough fuel...
The trip from Dallas back home was something too. The departure time was 6.30pm and everyone boarded. Then at 7pm, the pilot said they couldn't find the replacement part for an aeroplane part, and they took the plane out of service. We waited to board a backup plane. Then somehow we lost our pilots!
Departure time was 6.30pm and we didn't even have our pilots until 9pm!!!
I fly a lot - last year alone, I flew 55 flights. I have flown on all 7 continents. I have NEVER experienced anything so terrible! I'm sure every airline experiences problems, but these sounded like lack of planning to me. Shouldn't they have checked whether the plane was fit to fly before anyone boards it? Or make sure that we would have pilots? Or enough fuel?
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I really enjoyed Nashville. Backstage tour was definitely worth it, and I also spent a long time at the Hall of Fame and Museum too. Very surprised to see Taylor Swift everywhere, and that they had almost completely erased the Dixie Chicks. I kept having fried chicken. The Hermitage was very good too.
Montgomery was good for a short stay. Liked the sites related to Rosa Parks and Dr King and the Confederacy.
The space camp was fun, but probably not going back like some people would.