Yesterday I left Fredericton, NB for Toronto. Not too complicated, one would think. The plane was delayed leaving. We were supposed to take off at 11:10 am. and when we got to the airport we were told that the flight was delayed until 11:30 am. No biggie. They finally boarded the plane at 11:30 am and then we sat on the runway for about half an hour. One might understand if there was questionable weather or there were lots of flights all wanting to go at the same time, but there wasn't, it was brilliant sunshine and about -1 C, and there was one other flight. To my mind this wasn't a problem as I didn't have to make any connecting flights and Meredith was expecting me sometime in the early afternoon. Most of the other people on the plane which was overbooked, by the way, had connecting flights. There were 17 military folks on their was to Edmonton for a special training before their next deployment for Afghanistan, a couple of military heading to Kingston, and so on. I know this because the flight attendant read out a list before we landed that read something like the 17 of you with the connecting flight to Edmonton your gate is at the other end of the airport and they may hold the plane for you because there are so many of you....run as fast as you can when we get there, you 2 people for Kingston your gate is right next to the one we are going to so you may make your flight, and so on and so on.
I met the other three people who were terminating the flight in Toronto at the luggage carrousel. It went around and around and around and nothing erupted onto the conveyor. Then the electronic sign that said the luggage from the Fredericton flight was going to be on carrousel 1 changed to a flight from Sudbury and we knew we were in trouble.
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