I was supposed to fly out last night from Pudong to HKG, to stay a night, go to the bank in the morning, and then fly from HKG to EWR today. Due to heavy fog and rain, most flights of China Eastern airline were grounded yesterday in Shanghai. The strange thing was that they didn't just cancel the flight and let people go home. They made people wait all day. By the time I arrived at the airport at 7pm for my 9.20pm flight, people had been waiting for 12 hours. Finally a flight landed and ready to go out, but they have to take care of the people from the morning first. The made us wait. They can't even find out if any flight will coming in to take us. It was such a mess at the airport. After 5 hours of waiting, I aborted the mission. I called Continental and changed my flight to EWR to depart from Shanghai today. I got home by 1am, and spent ¥400 on taxi and US$400 to change my flight. Then I went online and requested refund on my China Eastern ticket. I went ahead and refunded the whole ticket, and booked my return from HK to Shanghai flying Dragon Air instead.
NEVER flying China Eastern to HK, or any international again. They can't manage when there is situation.
The situation also made me reschedule my global entry appointment, missed my chance to do banking in HK and now I can't go to Macau on my way back because I have to stay in HK to go to the bank!
So, I am sitting here waiting for my flight to EWR. At least I am going to be back home. I am so looking forward to it. So excited.
It is going to be a short trip. I know it is going to go by quickly.
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