Its sucky but disappointingly we were delayed leaving Brisbane and as a result missed our connection in New Zealand and as a knock on effect missed our connection in LA for San Diego! The worst thing was that when we finally arrived in LA we couldn’t get even get a confirmation on to the next available flight and instead had to go on stand by for about 5 flights before we finally managed to get out of LA. I think in the end a two hour delay in Brsibane translated to a nearly seven hour delay by the time we finally got to our hotel in San Diego. What a waste.

Its never nice to have delays but nevertheless its very entertaining to see how people deal with it. One lady in the Fashion Industry (as she kept pointing out to everyone within shouting’s distance) was a bit extreme – I’m not sure if she made herself so angry that she started crying or if she was genuinely upset. Now I understand that the delay was hardly pleasant but there is no use in shouting to the ground staff at the airport. All I could think was lady at least there were ground staff around to deal with our complaints. Plus, we all got $5 phone cards and $12 meal vouchers for the three hour delay in NZ so immediately we were in a much better position than we were in Lisbon!