Sunday, September 16, 2018

Return from Versailles.--FUBAR!

If you have seen the movie..Private Ryan,, you know what FUBAR means.

I tend to give everything bad 3 chances before I write them off. Our return flight from Paris on LOT airlines was the LAST STRAW. We arrived ar Charles De Gaulle airport the required 2 hours ahead of time to find ourselves at the end of the long line of people waiting to check in. Then came the announcement the flight would be delayed 2 hours because the plane had a malfunction in Warsaw before flying to Paris in the morning. The plane arrived at 12:30 but we couldn't board until 13:30 and it finally took off at 14:20. It arrived in Warsaw at 16:40, 2 hours AFTER our connecting flight to Poznan. They announced we had to go to the transfer desk to make other arrangements.

There was NOT another flight until the next day, Sunday. So, they suggested giving us a voucher for a taxi to drive us to Poznan, a 3 hour drive. By the time we had the voucher, got the taxi, made the long drive and arrived at home, it was 20:00. Originally, we were suppose to be home at 14:30.

There was a second option, a voucher to spend the night in a hotel in Warsaw with dinner and then take the plane back to Poznan on Sunday. However, we have a meeting in Slupca with family on Sunday which we would have had to cancel and I did not want to do that. So, we took the taxi ride home.

That was our third bad experience with LOT. It will be a long time before I consider using that airline again.

Jeśli widziałeś film ... Prywatne Ryan, wiesz co oznacza FUBAR.

Staram się dać wszystko złe 3 szanse zanim je wypiszę. Nasz lot powrotny z Paryża liniami LOT był LAST STRAW. Przyjechaliśmy na lotnisko Charles De Gaulle wymagane 2 godziny wcześniej, aby znaleźć się na końcu długiej linii osób oczekujących na odprawę. Potem przyszło ogłoszenie, że lot będzie opóźniony o 2 godziny, ponieważ samolot miał awarię w Warszawie przed wylotem do Paryża rano. Samolot przyleciał o 12:30, ale nie mogliśmy wejść na pokład do 13:30 i ostatecznie wystartowało o 14:20. Przyleciał do Warszawy o 16:40, 2 godziny po naszym lotem do Poznania. Ogłosili, że musimy udać się do stanowiska transferowego, aby dokonać innych ustaleń.Nie było innego lotu do następnego dnia, w niedzielę. Zaproponowali nam więc voucher na taksówkę, która zawiezie nas do Poznania, w 3 godziny. Zanim dostaliśmy kupon, wzięliśmy taksówkę, przejechaliśmy długą drogę i dotarliśmy do domu, było 20:00. Pierwotnie mieliśmy być w domu o 14:30.Była druga opcja, voucher na nocleg w hotelu w Warszawie z kolacją, a następnie w niedzielę samolot wraca do Poznania. Mamy jednak spotkanie w Slupca z niedzielą, którą musielibyśmy anulować i nie chciałem tego zrobić. Tak, wzięliśmy taksówkę do domu.To było nasze trzecie złe doświadczenie z LOT. Minie sporo czasu, zanim ponownie rozważę skorzystanie z tej linii lotniczej

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are not alone with the "LOT of bad experience".
I took my first trip to Poland via Lufthansa, based on input from
three Polish citizens I met in America in 2015-16. Their flight and luggage problems were major enough for me to forgo using that airlines
(even though I'd wanted to support my heritage, and my Polish travel
agent worked with LOT, a lot)....

As much as I get irritated w. the "all too-perfectness of Germans",
I have to commend their airlines and flight logistics and staff. It was a breeze getting to PL through their airlines, the onboard experience was very good too.

And if I get to go to Poland again (which I hope is the case), I
will likely rely on Lufthansa again. It's a shame Poland's one-and-only major airlines has all these issues (and a track record of delays, lost luggage, etc. They definitely need to shape up!

~Stephanie