To ask for your holiday airport disasters (lighthearted)

[Snooks1971]

Just that really! Mine isn’t a disaster more of a mishap, but my shoulders definitely hunched up next to my ears at the time due to a combination of stress, late hour, busy airport, after 2 hours on a hot coach transfer on the way back to UK....
Anyway I digress
Older ds 14 announced a headache. Ok, here’s 2 paracetamol says I and you can swallow them with the coke from the very over priced airport Subway, already purchased.
DS puts one paracetamol in his mouth, leans forward and picks up Coke bottle for a swig, accidentally drops paracetamol in bottle of coke from stupid open teenage gurning gob. Can you guess the rest?

At the time my inner voice thought it was funny but my inner voice was also very quiet at that moment. Now I can see the funny side! Please share....

Hi @Yugi - I just checked out those books and it sounds like the same place. I didn't know it had been written about! We were put on buses from the planes, and taken to a school /college. They had set up camp beds in the hall and gave us packs of soap and toothpaste etc. They fed us and let us use phones, internet etc. They were very excited to have visitors to their isolated town and everyone wanted to talk. It felt very far from the tragedy in New York, so quite disconnected to what had happened.
It was slightly weird (if you are into conspiracy theories - I'm not), as locals told me that the town had only just had a kind of mass drill/ training, about what to to in the event of a terrorist attack, e.g. they could be a base for evacuations etc. Hence the available camp beds in the school etc, and the excellent organisation.

However; the most poignant thing for me was that when we finally got to our original planned destination (in South America) we went to a tiny cafe in a tiny village, in the middle of nowhere, and on the wall was a big photo poster of New York with the twin towers in the centre. That was just odd.
(Sorry if any of this is disrespectful; I don't mean it to be. RIP).

@charley50 - it is also the basis for the musical Come From Away that has won lots of awards. Sounds like an incredible moment in the midst of such tragedy.

Sadly I have no airport story of my own, so will offer up a friend's. Big family holiday to Florida, friend has all passports, tickets etc organised - except her DH's. He said his passport was fine, in date, yes he'd checked etc. They arrive at check in, all fine until he hands over his passport - it's out of date! So, obviously he hadn't checked it. Friend was incredibly cool - got on the flight with the rest of the family, leaving her DH to hoik it up to London overnight to sort his passport, rebook flight etc. (This was a while ago). I would have bloody killed him!!!

Went to the wrong gate.. was about to board the plane (departing at similar tkme) when I realised it was totally the wrong plane and my gate was the other side of the airport.

Had to have them ring through and hold the plane for me while I raced round.

Nearly ended up in Rome one Easter, when flying to Lanzarote. We got there early (always do) and went to our check-in desk number. However, we were so early they were still boarding the Rome flight from it!

Recently travelling back from NYC we flew into Heathrow and had a very tight turnaround to make our connecting flight to Glasgow. We have the four children totally briefed get the phones iPads put no liquids etc. DD3s bag gets pulled for searching, huge queue, one woman going at snails pace doing the swabbing. I realise it’s a snow globe she bought in NYC is over the 100mls a bit of begging and showing the woman our boarding passes and we make the flight with about a minute to spare - phew!