Mi Nina Bonita

OHHHHHH do I have a hate for you.  Normally I write about little funny things that bother me because it's like oh haha yea that's annoying.  Today I come to you as I am sleeping in the Bogota airport for the second fucking time this week with fury burning inside.

Hate:  AIRES AIRLINES.  Fuck you all.  I have never had more problems with any airline or combination of airlines in my entire life.  You are THE worst at doing your job.  I have been in Colombia for a week.  A single week.  I have taken 2 Aires flights and both have just ended up being completely ridiculous.  First, we'll go back to where it all began, flying from Bogota to Medellin at 11 on Sunday night.  I was with a friend, all was well, we were very excited to go to Medellin and get to our hostel and do some fun stuff.  (Hate within a hate, snoring in public.  Dear fucking Colombian next to me if you KNOW you snore, do not fall asleep in public.  I hope you have sleep apnea and suffocate.  I will not save you.)  So we get on our flight and take a little napski and almost an hour later we're waking up and they're talking over the intercom.  It's really hard to understand spanish over an intercom when it's been years since you spoke it, but my friend at least is pretty fluent and she was like I thought I heard him say we're going back to Bogota.  I was skeptical because the announcement didn't sound at all urgent and no one around us seemed at all upset so we decided that it was an "if" situation and we would probably still land in Medellin.  There were no more announcements so we were like eh alright.  We awake again and its been 2 hours and they are announcing that we're landing in Bogota.  Ok Aires.  I can deal.  I'll even say that they handled it well getting us  on flights the next day and sleeping arrangements and food and stuff.  My friend and I end up getting a free domestic flight for offering to change our flights in the morning from 6 to 7:30.  Awesome.  So we're sleeping on the floor at the gate, it's almost time for our flight, but the 6 o'clock flight hasn't taken off because the Medellin airport is still closed.  The airline, however, is not telling the passengers the Medellin airport is closed.  They even board the flight, as we're getting on we're like oh so the airport is open?  And they're like we haven't gotten word but we're going to board anyway.  One time flying to Medellin and back with some pluses is funny, twice is just ridiculous.  Also you haven't gotten word?? You are 2 airports an hour flight away from each other and we are in the 21st century call ANYONE at ANY TIME and see if it's open.  So they board the flight and 99% of the passengers still have no idea that the Medellin airport isn't open.  We end up leaving a little late and getting there and it's fine, but Aires, that was risky business.  So I want to spend as much time out and about in Colombia as possible so I use my free flight with Aires to get a flight from Pereira to Bogota so I get there like 3.5 hours before my red eye flight home.  There was also drama getting the free flight, I'll just say I know the customer service number by heart, in case you want to call and bother them and tell them they suck it's 018000949490.  That's the number in Colombia, it probably won't work in the states but hey it was worth a shot.  I wonder if I'll get in trouble for that...  So I finally get my flight and get to the little Pereira airport with 3 terminals with every flight going to Bogota.  Of course my flight gets delayed until 11:30, making me miss my red eye home.  Awesome.  So basically I don't know what to do.  They won't even attempt to get me on one of the other flights (aka every flight) to Bogota with another company and I'd lose my free flight.  My friend is still in Pereira but I don't know where and can't call, I could stay in Pereira and spend the night figuring out what to do but I'd lose the free flight and would eventually have to fly to Bogota to get home anyway.  I could take the flight but then be stuck and sleeping alone in the Bogota airport because the airport is far away from the city and I'd have to be there early to figure out how I'm getting home anyway.  How often can things go wrong with an airline?  Seriously??  Right now they're at 100% which is impressive.  So I decide to take the flight and figure it out in Bogota, I'm going into the waiting room for my flight and the girl there says my bag that I have never had to check in my life is too big.  In all seriousness I didn't want to check it because I was so sure they were going to lose it in that short trip from terminal to plane because clearly none of them know what the fuck they're doing.  So I have to check the bag, meanwhile when I sit down on the plane two people around me can't get their fucking rolly carry ons into the overhead compartment.  You know whose suitcase would have fit??  Fucking. Mine.  So here I am.  Sitting alone in the Bogota airport at 2:30 AM.  Writing this blog.  There are 3 old Colombian men staring at me from all directions and one snoring his life away behind me and two security guards listening to terrible Spanish music loud as hell from a hand held radio to my left.  Don't you guys have something better to be doing?  Did I mention that I also might have to pay for my flight home?  So thanks Aires, I really love being in this situation right now.  I mean, of course I'm happy to pull another all nighter this week because of you.  Great.  Let's hope I can stay awake so my shit doesn't get stolen tonightt.

-_-  (I have never used that emoticon before but I felt it was fitting in this situation.)

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