Rebooked to an Earlier Flight. Twice!
Jun. 12th, 2025 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWell, there was one benefit to day 2 of our all-day training session starting 2 hours early today. We finished early. We broke just after 2, and I headed to the airport.
I kind of figured wanting to finish early was why the exec "called an audible" at dinner last night and said let's start 2 hours early. Every time we have multi-day seminar the execs' admin assistants tell us in finger-wagging fashion that the session goes until 5pm and we must not book flights home before 7pm— because they don't want people disappearing a few hours early on the excuse of "Oh, I have to catch a flight." Except half the execs then book early flights. Heaven forbid they should get home at midnight or on a redeye! 🙄
I even shared a ride to the airport with the exec who'd booked a 3:30pm flight. On a training day that was originally scheduled 9a-5p. Because apparently he didn't want to miss dinner with his family, even though it's his admin who sanctimoniously told the rest of us not to book flights departing before 7pm.
Why did I hop a ride to the airport at 2:15 when my flight wasn't 'til 7:30? Because as soon as it was clear the seminar was going to be done-done at 2pm I opened my Southwest Airlines app and booked a same-day confirmed change to the 4:30pm flight.
We got to the airport quickly— it was just a few minutes away as we were meeting at an airport hotel, not a beach boondoggle— and passed through security quickly. As I was consulting a map of places inside the airport, thinking "What can I do to kill 2 hours until my flight?" it occurred to me, Wait, there's an even earlier flight I can catch! I pulled out my phone another time, opened the app, and rebooked to the 3:30pm flight. Changing flights twice in 30 minutes... I felt like such a baller!
The upshot of all of it was I got home, as in home-home, at 5:15pm. With my original schedule it would've been 9:30. Hooray for being able to roll with the changes.
I kind of figured wanting to finish early was why the exec "called an audible" at dinner last night and said let's start 2 hours early. Every time we have multi-day seminar the execs' admin assistants tell us in finger-wagging fashion that the session goes until 5pm and we must not book flights home before 7pm— because they don't want people disappearing a few hours early on the excuse of "Oh, I have to catch a flight." Except half the execs then book early flights. Heaven forbid they should get home at midnight or on a redeye! 🙄
I even shared a ride to the airport with the exec who'd booked a 3:30pm flight. On a training day that was originally scheduled 9a-5p. Because apparently he didn't want to miss dinner with his family, even though it's his admin who sanctimoniously told the rest of us not to book flights departing before 7pm.
Why did I hop a ride to the airport at 2:15 when my flight wasn't 'til 7:30? Because as soon as it was clear the seminar was going to be done-done at 2pm I opened my Southwest Airlines app and booked a same-day confirmed change to the 4:30pm flight.
We got to the airport quickly— it was just a few minutes away as we were meeting at an airport hotel, not a beach boondoggle— and passed through security quickly. As I was consulting a map of places inside the airport, thinking "What can I do to kill 2 hours until my flight?" it occurred to me, Wait, there's an even earlier flight I can catch! I pulled out my phone another time, opened the app, and rebooked to the 3:30pm flight. Changing flights twice in 30 minutes... I felt like such a baller!
The upshot of all of it was I got home, as in home-home, at 5:15pm. With my original schedule it would've been 9:30. Hooray for being able to roll with the changes.
