Monday, July 2, 2007

So Far I am in Paris

Well here I sit in Paris, apparently a 50 minute layover is not enough to make a connection here. I got to the counter in time to see them closing the door to the plane out the window. There are 2 reasons I missed my flight. 1. We left Atlanta a little over an hour after we were supposed to and 2. The Paris airport is a. Huge, b. confusing, c. Lacks any real information desks, d. There are 3 parts--View the image below:
At the bottom is the overall map of the airport. I believe we landed in area 3, we unloaded out of the plane and onto the runway-thats right, not even into the building-then we crowded into buses which carried us over to 2. At this point you still have no real clue as to where your next flight leaves from, but its in 2 somewhere. The signs pointing everywhere don't really explain much, I literally ran to get to my gate, just to see my plane leave.

So now I go talk to the Air France people to see when I can get going again. At first she says she can't get me in until Tuesday night (my talk is on Tuesday at 5), but then she "forced" me onto a flight Monday evening. I should be in Athens by about 10 or 11 tonight. Then I have a 5:30 flight out to Alexanderopolis. By the way I also had to pay 20 Euros to get this internet to buy the 112 Euro plane ticket to get on path again. I hope I can get reimbursed for all this.

Thats all for now.

1 comment:

Justin Short said...

You should've just threatened them, they would've surrendered immediatly.