Posted on 07/14/2021 3:59:26 PM PDT by algore
A one hour flight from Las Vegas, Nevada to Stockton, California turned into a 17-hour trip
Allegiant Airlines flight 161 was scheduled to land in Stockton on Monday at 9:30 pm but was not cleared for landing due to an unmanned control tower
The plane was flown back to Las Vegas where it was turned away due to thunderstorms
Roughly 175 passengers were eventually deplaned at LAX and made to wait in a holding room without a bathroom
The flight to Stockton was then rescheduled for the next day as upset passengers were given $250 ticket vouchers and left to sort out their situation on their own.
'There was a guy that said, 'What do we do? Do we need to find hotel rooms, are we on our own?' And the gentleman said, 'Yes, as of right now, you're on your own.''
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I still call it McCarran. Not Harry Reems.
“Scheduling a flight into a field with an unmanned control tower. They should be out of business soon.”
Not at all. ATC is closing towers at night and not publishing in aviation databases. They change those hours so fast that the database update cycles are often not current.
ATC went woke two years ago. AA hires that are terribly unqualified and now forcing even more workloads for the qualified controllers. This is causing towers to close.
Heck, I get notice on a Friday that a tower will be closed on Saturday.
“I still call it McCarran.”
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So do I.
Harry Reems....LOL!
The mile high club grew fun ensues.
Oakland International airport is only about 71 miles from Stockton. You have to wonder why they did not call for a gate there and bus their passengers from Oakland to Stockton, Instead they flew the 580+ miles back to Vegas, circled there for awhile and then flew 280+ miles to LAX, plopping their passengers almost 400 miles from Stockton. They should be out of business.
Mr. mm and I were on a flight that got delayed and we thought we had missed the connecting flight.
Happens many other passengers were making the same connection so they held up the late night flight for us.
If that hadn’t happened, mr. mm was over engineering the situation and worried about accommodations and I said, *We’ll rent a car and drive the five hours home and sort it out with the airlines later.*
No way I’m letting an airline screw me over like that.
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