cococandy:
First mistake is flying frontier

pendragonbladgo:
Ooopps, I once missed my flight also. Bitter event. Got to the trailer pack by 7pm to join a truck loading goods from Indorama Petrochemicals Eleme to the North, precisely Zaria-Kano. After checking inn through the man called Baban Saidu that we paid attachment to, and went through a lot from one custom to another Immigration checks, who pass our bags ontop of the truck. He, Baban Saidu the flight customer care said our flight will take off by 10pm.

So I and my Hausa friend went to take egg and indomie in one mai'shai's mallam joint, lo and behold, Returning to the departing pack run way where the truck flight were packed, we were told that the truck just took off earlier as scheduled. Wow! Imagine oh, a flight schedule for 10pm took off 9:20pm - Nigeria confusion.
We have to wait till the next night for flight loading fertiliser from Indorama Eleme PH to North West Kano DC. in the Summer
At last, I climb the truck and sat on the loaded goods under wind and cold.
Una no go kill me, I no get no mean say I no go tell my story too. Fly your plane make I fly my truck.

You're funny.

Last last we go die naked!!!!

Schrodinger2:

I ought to have been there by 6am. I think boarding started early and ended early, before 6:30am. Ordinarily, boarding should be from 6am to 6:30am for a 6:45am takeoff. Nothing like African time o, and two Africans missed the flight. Despite being arriving at the airport around 3:45am.

pendragonbladgo:
Ooopps, I once missed my flight also. Bitter event. Got to the trailer pack by 7pm to join a truck loading goods from Indorama Petrochemicals Eleme to the North, precisely Zaria-Kano. After checking inn through the man called Baban Saidu that we paid attachment to, and went through a lot from one custom to another Immigration checks, who pass our bags ontop of the truck. He, Baban Saidu the flight customer care said our flight will take off by 10pm.

So I and my Hausa friend went to take egg and indomie in one mai'shai's mallam joint, lo and behold, Returning to the departing pack run way where the truck flight were packed, we were told that the truck just took off earlier as scheduled. Wow! Imagine oh, a flight schedule for 10pm took off 9:20pm - Nigeria confusion.
We have to wait till the next night for flight loading fertiliser from Indorama Eleme PH to North West Kano DC. in the Summer
At last, I climb the truck and sat on the loaded goods under wind and cold.
Una no go kill me, I no get no mean say I no go tell my story too. Fly your plane make I fly my truck.

Last last we go die naked!!!!

Pipefitter:


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

Schrodinger2:

I ought to have been there by 6am. I think boarding started early and ended early, before 6:30am. Ordinarily, boarding should be from 6am to 6:30am for a 6:45am takeoff. Nothing like African time o, and two Africans missed the flight. Despite being arriving at the airport around 3:45am.

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.

funshint:

It doesn't matter if you arrived the airport at 1am. You weren't at the boarding lounge when you should be. And stop making this about Africans.

Schrodinger2:

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

Schrodinger2:


Most often than not, I thought passengers on international flights usually get rescheduled free of charge, at later date. Interesting experience.

macrodata:
first mistake was prioritizing church when you're on transit.

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.

emmybobo1:

Of course there things you won’t discuss with your father in certain places. You’ll say daddy when we get home I’ll tell you something

antimason:
May God answer my prayer so that one day I would see myself in the USA,UK or CANADA driving a long haul truck and earning big... I have already overcome the first huddle which is to learn truck driving, remaining to JAPA successfully

Schrodinger2:

I ought to have been there by 6am. I think boarding started early and ended early, before 6:30am. Ordinarily, boarding should be from 6am to 6:30am for a 6:45am takeoff. Nothing like African time o, and two Africans missed the flight. Despite being arriving at the airport around 3:45am.

GboyegaD:


Check your ticket again to see when boarding ends because once the door is closed, they can't open it for anyone to come in.
Hope you were placed on another flight for free? I guess I have missed too many flights to be bothered about missing flights provided they are domestic as I am sure they would put me on the next flight (waiting list). But I wouldn't want to miss a Frontier flight since they don't go to all their destinations daily.

One incident I will never forget because I had to pay for another flight was those days Arik Air flies Lagos-New York direct. It was 2013 and I was going to Canada through New York. I had flown Arik Air from JFK to Lagos when returning from the US and the flight door was closed at 12 noon for a 12:15pm flight so I felt they were always consistent not knowing they are only consistent on the JFK-LOS trip.

I booked Delta Airline for 4 hours past our arrival time at New York and behold, on the day I was to fly back to JFK, boarding was to start from 10:50pm and we did not start boarding until 11:50pm. I slept off before takeoff only to wake up around 3:50am and realized we were still in LOS. They said they were waiting for the various flights bringing passengers from other neighboring countries. We eventually left around 5am.

Getting to JFK, I ran to the Delta Stand and was told since I didn't buy the tickets together, it was a case of no show and I have to book a new flight and it was going to cost me about a thousand since I was flying same day however, they could take to me Salt Lake City for free but the SLC-YYC leg, I need to book.

While waiting to board the SLC ticket, I stopped by a computer shop (more or less a business center with a cyber cafe in it) in JFK and paid to browse. I decided to check flights directly from JFK-YYC and luckily, I got one from LGA-YYC on United for about $263 with a stopover in Denver, my best stopover airport because of the free calls you can make to anywhere in the world with a 10minute limit (I repeat the calls and once 10minutes is over, I call again). Thinking of this experience now, I can laugh however, back then, it was a big pain for me.

EZENDIZUOGU:
Did i hear you say your landlady, guys dont get me wrong

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..?

oracle009:


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

kingsolomonjnr01:

Really interested on learning truck driving...... How did you learn that?

TayusKilzEasyjay:


You be sir weyrey. Drop your number so anytime dem catch me I go fit call you to come bail me

antimason:
you would have to follow an established truck driver around as a conductor(motor boy) to learn manually.

kingsolomonjnr01:

So aside that no other way?...