Last weekend was NCA. Getting there was a disaster, but the event was great. When I woke up I was booked on a direct American flight landing at 1:30pm. By the time I made it to Dallas, around 10:30pm via a connecting flight on Delta, I’d been in possession of 9 boarding passes or seat request cards. In between I talked to a very friendly American desk agent, a nice Delta desk agent, a dismissive Delta gate agent, and a friendly Delta gate agent. The bad part is the dismissive Delta agent probably caused me to get to Dallas about 5 hours later than necessary because she wouldn’t put me on the standby list, saying no seats were available. Had I been put on the list I would likely have been first and given a seat when the family with international travel issues wasn’t allowed to board and people on the standby list were awarded their seats.
Then it started snowing in Memphis.
Andre J. Carter 
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