Situation: Terminal

[bcholmes]

I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I'm in Miami. I hate Miami.

Yesterday's incident with the airplane bomber means that all flights into the U.S. are now subject to extra security measures. These include:

1. Full pat-down search at the gate
2. Full bag search at the gate
3. Restricted use of devices on the plane
4. We were not allowed to leave our seat, use electronic devices, or hold anything in our laps during the last hour of our flight.

Some people have reported that carry-on luggage is now disallowed.

My flight from Toronto to Miami was at least an hour and a half late leaving the gate. I accepted a volunteer request to take a later flight, which is why I'm in fucking Miami over night.

Other joys:

1. One-hour line-up to get a hotel voucher
2. One missing bag (which they can't tell me anything about because they changed tag numbers when they pulled my bags from the original flight). One hour line-up to talk to baggage claims. All they said was "check in when you get to PAP"
3. Lots of angry customer who have missed connecting flights

I'm leaving this godforsaken city at stupid early in the morning, but I'll probably arrive in Pòtoprens with a missing suitcase. The suitcase that has all of my (warm weather) clothes.

Gar.

Comments

[wrdnrd]

When i woke up hearing about this on the news my 1st thought was, "Oh, great. What idiotic rules will TSA make up NOW?" UGH. I'm so sorry.

[firecat]

Arrggghhhhh!