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By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
March 29, 2013 7:13pm CST
On Apr 3 we are flying United from McAllen Texas, to Toronto Ontario.
We had been driving the 2030 miles( 4 days and 3 nights) by car for the past 14 years and,as you can imagine, the trip became a job of work that was no longer enjoyable. We were finding the motels dirtier and more expensive, and the roads busier, with ever more cars and trucks.
So now we fly United!
United is very big and very busy, and as we found on the way down, its not always on time, but it did not break our Guitar, nor did it lose our luggage. Needless to say we are hoping for the best on the return journey back home to Canada.
Let's hear your scary airline stories!
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
30 Mar 13
I don't particularly like flying, the last time I got on a plane was in 2007, it was rather daring of me because I had never up until that time been on a plane on my own! As well as it being a big adventure, it was also rather scary too, always I had someone with me when I got a plane, but not this time, it was only a short flight, 4 hours, From London To Rhodes, fortunately I arrived in one piece and my luggage found me. The worst thing I hate is the hanging around and having to get to the airport so long before the flight is due to take off, it's more time to worry. I haven't flown since, I like my feet on terra firma and I think I've lost my travelling spirit. I have to admit that the times that I have used budget airlines I have never been disappointed, Easyjet have always been reliable to me.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
30 Mar 13
One of the my most exciting dreams is when I fly, not in an airplane but just flying like a bird. So I love to fly, even when it's with United Airlines! I enjoy the waits at the airport as well. I never get tired of people watching. We had our luggage lost once by Southwest Airlines, but it arrived at our mobile in Texas shortly after we got there.
• India
30 Mar 13
Well nearly two years ago when I was flying Pune to Delhi I was stopped by a policeman on the airport for custom check. Well this is normall every time someone take plane they have to go throw from this but this time only thing which is uncommon is that time which they take, It took nearly 2 hours to check my documents and my luggage and when it all done I found that the flight which I went to take was gone....
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
3 Apr 13
Once, on a trip from Brisbane to Sydney my ears became blocked and I began to feel uncomfortable as I could not clear them. My head became heavy and soon I was in a great deal of pain. Luckily, it's not a long flight but it seemed interminable.
I was feeling a good deal better once we landed but I still felt sick and awful and my head was so heavy it felt like it could fall off.
I had gone to spend the weekend with my daughter and ended up spending the whole time in bed. I was expecting the return flight to be murder but it was not as bad. Whatever virus I had must have run it's course. I've been afraid of flying ever since.
@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
30 Mar 13
I have no air travel stories, as I never go anywhere, since I have a farm and work at it full time. I have made 2 trips via airplane in my entire life, both when I was a very young child with my mother. Once, to Florida, when I was 8 yrs old, and the other time, was just up to Sudbury, ON, since my Grampa was dying in the hospital.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
30 Mar 13
My Farm is just a day's drive south of Sudbury in Ont, but we have never been. Instead we go south for the winter. We farm honeybees, and they survive in the hive, eating honey to keep warm. Down here in Texas the bees will fly in the winter but must be fed to survive. Actually, although flying is expensive it is more economical to travel by plane, than by car.
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@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
30 Mar 13
I live about an hour and a half North of Toronto, so I assume we may be close to each other. I buy honey from a place down the road from me on a regular basis, because I have replaced my sugar usage with honey. But there is another place just a few doors down the road from them that isn't often home to buy honey from, but the 1 car has a personalized plate regarding the beekeeper. It escapes me at the moment, but I often wondered if it was your place.
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
30 Mar 13
it is a great feeling travelling to different cities and also experiencing the change in weather and good terrains,enjoy the journey and make the most of it.Motels are very important to choose in canada
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
30 Mar 13
Actually it is the American Motel that has turned us off. Since we began to rent rooms in them in 2002 they have grown steadily worse. It appears that the motel chains encourage Asians to own and (or) operate them. We were always worried about bedbugs, although we never found any, but generally speaking the cleanliness of these Motels was not up to our standards.
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@TLilly12 (1229)
• United States
30 Mar 13
I have nothing to tell about the air lines, I don't fly any where, when I travel I go by car,my family and I rent a van, and we go on vacation, but I don't think we will be going any where this summer, but I will be spending this summer, with my granddaughter, and I will be having a good time with her.
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