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13:00 - I finally made it to the hotel just shy of 04:00am and the cleaning lady had to bang on a back door for several minutes to wake up the night clerk, who was just as tired as I was. Due to the time shift and long flight, I didn't really sleep but kind of dozed until 7:30am when I showered and headed for the buffet breakfast (I still had that all-inclusive rate that I was trying to make worthwhile), then after a slow morning I'm back at the airport as write this - and LIAT just announced a 30 minute delay due to “operational reasons”, an acronym that means as little as the typical “police situation” in the USA when they block off a road. Ahh well, at least the sun is shining and I am seriously debating having my first Carib beer since before the hurricane season, but it is still pretty early.
I had 2 hours time to catch my connecting flight in St. Martin and as I wasn't interested in shopping I spent most of the time at gate C3 which, although unoccupied, had a big TV screen announcing my flight number departing at 16:25 and status was “on time”. As 16:15 rolled around the screen changed to read “Boarding” but the counter and gate remained unoccupied. Then it changed to “Closing” and finally “Departed“ and I suddenly got a bit worried. I ended up going to the neighbouring counter where I was told “Oh, the displays are wrong and aren't updated. LIAT leaves at gates in A”. Now I was worried, but thought that this was typically Caribbean, as I'd spoken to the same lady an hour before and told her that I was on the flight listed at the gate and if I could use their airline's immigration form (to which she'd said “no”). At that time she didn't tell me that I was at the wrong gate... sigh. Anyway, I rushed off to the other end of the airport and found a lone representative in an almost deserted lounge area. She told me that I should have looked at the gate number on my ticket (which didn't have a gate number, as I was transferring flights) and then informed me that the flight hadn't even arrived yet and was delayed about an hour. Ah well, at least all was not lost.![]() |
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