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AIBU to want to get home

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DrWhy · 02/03/2018 07:59

I kind of know AIBU but I am stuck in Central London, my home is in Aberdeen and last nights flight was cancelled, this mornings flight was cancelled and I’m now rebooked on an evening flight, which will probably be cancelled despite the fact that both London and Aberdeen airports are open and some flights have been getting between the two. My problem is that my booking is with Flybe who don’t rebook you as standard, don’t even e-mail when they cancel you have to check every half an hour on so on the website then race to rebook online yourself competing with anyone else looking for flights on the same route and they are cancelling a lot of their flights. BA are cancelling about half their flights and proactively rebooking people so there’s no availability for new people trying to get onto them. I had a choice of the last flight home of the day with Flybe or waiting until tomorrow morning and booking onto a BA flight. I’ve gone for tonight as I’m desperate to see DS, he’s 17 months, I haven’t seen him since 5am on Monday, which is the longest ever and I miss him horribly. I will kick myself if I’ve done the wrong thing, the flight gets cancelled at the last minute again and all the BA flights for tomorrow morning are full by then. Or if I make it to Aberdeen airport late at night then can’t get home from there.
I know it’s a bit of a first world problem, DS is home with DH enjoying the snow, I’m safe in London, none of us are stuck in the snow anywhere. I just want to be with my family so I’m having a rant. Going to pull myself together and get into our London office now.

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ScreamingValenta · 02/03/2018 23:48

Aargh! Thank goodness you have a back up flight. What a nightmare Flowers.

DrWhy · 03/03/2018 07:05

Thanks onlyjust that’s a good call. In reality the toddler is nearly 18 months so 24 or 48 hours without milk wouldn’t be a disaster but if we can get over there we’ll do that. It’s doubly frustrating as I only stopped feeding him a couple of weeks ago but don’t have that option anymore! Apparently shops were fine and he didn’t think anything of it then Northsound made a massive fuss about it and everyone went on a mad panic buy and cleared the shops Hmm it’s a shame Devenick dairy don’t have their licence to sell milk direct yet.

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RandomMess · 03/03/2018 09:32

I hope you are home now!

DrWhy · 03/03/2018 22:55

Made it home at 3pm! 4 hour delay on the BA flightbthia morning (Flybe one was cancelled again), 3 of us from the cancelled flight last night were on the same one and banded together at the gate. We were borderline hysterical- lots of laughing and when it looked like this one would be cancelled too we vowed to all take separate flights so we couldn’t jinx each other again!
DH has been a legend - not only home to a happy toddler but he did a decent shop this morning (plenty of milk in Banchory), has shovelled the drive, made a snowman, kept on top of the laundry and even emptied the nappy bin! This is way more of a way to win my heart than bunches of flowers! Smile

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RandomMess · 03/03/2018 22:56

Yeah!!!!!

YouCantGetHereFromThere · 03/03/2018 23:03

My very sensible husband has suggested booking a fully flexible BA flight for tomorrow morning so if tonight’s flight leaves I can cancel the one tomorrow at no cost, if tonight’s flight doesn’t leave I take the refund for that and then I’m in the system for BA to get me home.

You're home now so this is a bit late, but I was going to suggest doing exactly this.

I'm in a very snowy US state and a lot of flights get cancelled here, and DH flies a LOT for work. For one journey he quite often will have two or three flexible flights home booked via various routes or with various airlines. Once he's on one flight he cancels the others (he always pays for wifi onboard).

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