Hmmmmmmm.

It is usually a harrowing experience to miss a flight. I missed one from Asaba to Abj

iHateFraudsters:
See what religion has caused?

It's easy to say "God is everywhere".

But it's hard to believe it

Because if you believe it, you can communicate with God anywhere you are.

I tire o! why we choose to pigeon hole God in a box, is something that baffles me with Nigerians! We shout God the loudest but we lift up the devil in almost all our actions!( the OP is good o! just a trifle brainwashed).

I say Amen with faith

KarinaSlim:
If you are here reading this and you are asking God "When will I ever enter a plane?"? "When will I ever go on a Flight"?

I pray for you today that you shall never ask such question again for God shall make you to enter plane and different flights just the same way you jump Okada and Buses before the end of this year 2023 in Jesus name (Amen)

Pipefitter:
If it's possible for you to check in online with your ticket, you won't miss most naija flight because you don't have any business with the counter, except you have a big luggage.

I don't know about US but sometimes Nigerian flights are overbooked, I once got to the airport 20mins before departure, I could hear from the address system that the flight was still boarding, but those at the counter told me they've closed the gate (whichever gate) and there was no other available seat/flight going to Enugu that day, another airlines said they have flight to Benin which is still very far from Enugu. I was forced to go to the park and enter bus to Enugu that same day and I arrived very late at night... I hope whichever agency in charge of Naija airlines put an end to this nonsense. One December also a flight I already booked prior to the date was not available, they said it was delayed but those agents were selling tickets are ridiculous prices to those coming from the international wing, I ended up staying for 8hrs at the airport from 8am, people wey enter bus don reach forget them travel... Sad experiences bro..

That’s standard - Flights abroad are also overbooked because it’s expensive flying with empty seats . I’ve been in many situations where flight attendants will ask if anyone would like to give up their seats for a price and be rebooked on the next available flight. If nobody obliges , they will start bumping people based on the quality of ticket purchased. They can legally do it.

Yes, gates are closed about 30 before departure. It usually is on the ticket . Departure at a certain time, boarding at a certain time. If you arrive at the check on counter at 6pm for 6:30pm flight , you likely won’t be allowed to board.

rickleye:


That’s standard - Flights abroad are also overbooked because it’s expensive flying with empty seats . I’ve been in many situations where flight attendants will ask if anyone would like to give up their seats for a price and be rebooked on the next available flight. If nobody obliges , they will start bumping people based on the quality of ticket purchased. They can legally do it.

Yes, gates are closed about 30 before departure. It usually is on the ticket . Departure at a certain time, boarding at a certain time. If you arrive at the check on counter at 6pm for 6:30pm flight , you likely won’t be allowed to board.

Never knew this, but if I checked it online I wouldn't have a problem except it's departure time right?

If you get like one minute video or more mins at the airport buzz me. I wan use am abeg @ O P. Just make sure you're not in the video sha

Africans and religion. You got to the airport, clear two hours before departure and still missed because you went to pray.

Maybe I didn't get the whole scenario but this is mind boggling.

Pipefitter:


Never knew this, but if I checked it online I wouldn't have a problem except it's departure time right?

Checking in online just means that we will have a can of soda and biscuit for you available and it will also tell the computer that you are probably going to show up. You still have to physically be at the departure gate when boarding begins.

It' took you too much time to pray.
But I commend you for you still dey pray.

Location?

Hemimarey:
It is well...

rickleye:


Checking in online just means that we will have a can of soda and biscuit for you available and it will also tell the computer that you are probably going to show up. You still have to physically be at the departure gate when boarding begins.

Yes I understand, but i couldn't have missed a flight if I'm 10mins late as I could hear them sti announcing the flight... I'd just walk to the departure gate and board

May be somebody prayer answered that was why you missed the flight, so some others could join the flight.

I was stopped by this young immigration guy at Amsterdam Airport. Very annoying. A barely over twenty years old guy, claimed that my document may be fake.
He allowed me to go when he saw my aircraft to travel with started to move.
Klm put me in another available flight, but I had to pray that some of the passengers miss their flight.

"Cheap flights comes with trade offs", if you ever fly on Easyjet £28 one way ticket, just know that you better not miss the flight because if you do, your are paying extra £110, God help you if you have another flight from same airport otherwise you have to find your way to the nearest airport where you can get a flight to your destination.

Don’t ever fly with Frontier or Spirit Airlines. They are the worst!

lol agba yahoo

TayusKilzEasyjay:
If you get like one minute video or more mins at the airport buzz me. I wan use am abeg @ O P. Just make sure you're not in the video sha

Schrodinger2:

Sure I wasn't there, but I think we Africans need to do more with keeping to time.

Nope... You and the African guy should do more with keeping to time. Stop the generalization bro.

blacksam01:
@Op, is it true that the US national flag hangs around places (public and private) more often than any other country on earth..?

i just saw one in the airport..?

Yes, you will see it on residential buildings, windows, doors, etc. basically everywhere and that their confederate flag.

Nigerians like anyhow-ness and complain about everything. You yourself said boarding was to close 6:20 but you got to the gate at 6:30 because you went to pray. Then you expect some form of empathy from the customer service. As per who u be.
I'd like to know the sort of empathy you expected from the customer service. What was said to you that you consider an element of poor customer service

TayusKilzEasyjay:
If you get like one minute video or more mins at the airport buzz me. I wan use am abeg @ O P. Just make sure you're not in the video sha

This smells like scam. You will be caught if you are trying to scam and tarnish our image here. They will catch you at your next attempt and deal with you gan

Merch:
lol agba yahoo

normally 😂

TayusKilzEasyjay:
If you get like one minute video or more mins at the airport buzz me. I wan use am abeg @ O P. Just make sure you're not in the video sha

This guy 😂

-Good you didn't bother your "landlady" that took you to the airport with ample time to check-in and board. You carried your L with dignity.

-I have only missed flight once- about 10 years ago. It was Lufthansa flight from PHC to Frankfurt, thanks to the untrained Nigerian police, however, the delay wasn't too bad as it offered me an opportunity to go back and have more sex and Biafran food.

-Every disappointment is a blessing.

WowSweetGuy:
Reminds me of my first foreign trip to China! I took Ethiopian airline from Abuja international airport stopping at Addis-Ababa and changing flight to Hangzhou, China. Normally we landed at Addis-Ababa airport then we had to wait for sometime for our load to be offloaded and reloaded on our next transit flight...Na so I go round that their mighty airport, I forgot to change my wrist watch time and I went to drink with one other white guy we are on the flight with. Before I could locate my counter to check into the new flight...Our flight has left us behind! I was like Damn see me see gobe! Ethiopian airline were so nice to us that they told us we can check into the country to sleep, its a visa free country and go around then fly with the next flight the next evening! We paid like only 50dollars for the visa! I got into Ethiopia and enjoyed with two sweet Ethiopian olosho that night!!! In the morning I went to that popular palace and places around the country. By evening I was at the airport and landed in Hangzhou China to face extra confusion as I couldn't speak Chinese then.

Can you speak Chinese now

Schrodinger2:

Sure I wasn't there, but I think we Africans need to do more with keeping to time.

It was all your fault. You went to catch flight at 3.45am but instead of you to prepare yourself to be ready for 6am boarding you were looking for church up and down. I think your god will disappear from the universe if you don't enter the church to pray that morning. That was not enough, you spent two hours in the church when you are supposed to be waiting for boarding. Na waa for you oo.
Over religious Nigerian.

nonhuman:
What were you doing in a chaple fir 1 hour plus, are you conducting church service there, nawao

He was the usher, chorister and officiating minister

Schrodinger2:
Finally Boarding!

Mumu. You for go back to chapel pray make doG tranport you to Washington himself. Pray pray nonsense.

I blame you for the missed flight. The Bible said in Ecclesiastes, that there is time for everything. You did not stick to it. That time and place is for boarding your plane not for entering a Chapel. I hope you don't learn a lesson.

Schrodinger2:
Although, I've occasionally heard people talk about how they once missed thier flights, I never paid great attention as to what follows next. The last occurrence a PhD friend in Minnesota told me was when he missed his US-bound British Airways flight from the UK last summer. He was eventually excited when placed on another BA flight for free after much delay albeit there was a change in his destination (He arrived Utah instead of Minneapolis).

Today, I was to depart Denver at 6:45am for Washington DC on a Frontier Airlines, a trip I've planned and prepared for, for weeks. Arrived very early at DEN airport around 3:45am, completed my check-ins and got my boarding pass by past 4am and was waiting for 6am when boarding would commence. I needed to perform morning prayers and was lucky to find an Interfaith Chapel in the airport. I went inside the chapel around 5am and came out about few minutes past 6am.

It was at this moment I became seemly apprehensive, with the realization that I had limited time to join the boarding that ends at 6:20am. The thought that I still had to pass through the slow Immigration check point for screening even confirmed by worst fears.

I hurriedly went through the screening, and joined a 2 minutes tram ride that would take me to my boarding gate. My people, that was how I arrived at the gate by 6:30am only to find another African from Djibouti also going to DC, and ought to have boarded the flight but stranded outside this gate. His first words, we've missed the flight, and the gate is locked. I responded, the plane hasn't left as I pointed to it. He said they won't let us in as boarding is closed.

We were ask to go see customer service but was astounded by the poor and irritating lack of empathy by the customer representatives of Frontier Airlines. Many of their customers missed one flight or the other for different reasons - We had to repay to book our tickets for another flight. No refund was given.
Currently waiting for the next flight to DC. Note: cheap flight comes with trade offs.

@bold is pure stupidity.

Once you miss your flight, walk into their office and tell them you missed your way, reason for missing the flight. A rebook will be done for you. Just talk

Sorry.

Same thing is holding us down here.

You used up to One hour to pray instead of doing the right thing at the right time.

There's time for everything under the sun, says the holy book.