Oct 30, 2007
Never go an airport without first phoning the airline on which you have seats to learn whether the flight is scheduled to depart on time
On our trip to Panama last week, Roberta and I were scheduled to fly back at 9am from Panama City. We placed a wake-up call at the hotel for 6am, were downstairs with our luggage at 7am, and reached the airport at 7:30am, only to learn that the flight had been postponed until 2:15pm, nearly six hours later. We had made the classic mistake of greenhorn travelers: We had failed to phone the airport in advance to learn of our flight's departure time. Instead of a morning at the pool, or shopping in downtown Panama City, we cooled our heels for several hours in a very uninteresting airport -- and were groggy from a 6am awakening for the rest of the day. Never, never leave for an airport without first phoning the airline to learn whether the departure is on time.
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