Post #1904034

2026-04-25 02:10 UTC

@BalooUriza One time I landed at JFK and my connecting flight to Boston was cancelled due to weather. I NEEDED to get to Boston so I went to the Avis desk and said I wanted a one-way rental from JFK to Logan. The guy at the desk said they couldn’t do it. I walked away from the desk and called their 800 number. 10 minutes later I walk up to the same guy “Hi, you should have a car for me.” Got my one-way rental that he couldn’t do.

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@ryan@m29.us 2026-04-25 06:05

@paco @BalooUriza One time my mother was flying back home to Green Bay (where I grew up), with a layover in ORD. Chicago was snowed in, and the flight was diverted... to Green Bay. The plan was to put everyone on a bus and drive to Chicago[0], but the flight staff got really confused when she grabbed her bag and started walking to the parking lot to her car. They were insistent that she follow the procedure of getting shuttled down to ORD so she could eventually get home. [0] GRB was tiny in the 80s; 4 gates, one of which was in use at any moment. Despite the city being almost universally known, the airport was just designed to get you to ORD or MSP. There was no way to do rebooking because the flights didn't exist.

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