Jetstar Dramas

I have fell victim to the evils of low cost airlines. I still don't know what happened to our plane on the 29th, but our flight was delayed for 20 hours. It all seems like distant pain now, but at the time it was truly painful.

The staff at Phuket checked our luggage and told us to come back at 9 to find out what was happening to our flight. Trish was off to geneva on business class so she was fine. At 9 we hear rumours that the flight has been delayed indefinitely and we're all to be bussed out to hotels.

Having none of a crowd of bogan aussies with bad tattoos and imitation Von Dutch bags (the customer base of the low-cost airline) I collected by bags and got a taxi back to our old hotel where they were more than happy to have me for another night. I was more than happy to spend another day by the pool, although lacking in clean clothes and toiletries that I had tossed out to lighten my pack. And I was more than happy to charge it back to Jetstar along with room service and any other charges I could think of. They're also giving me a $100 voucher to use, although I'm reluctant after being stuffed around twice (first time they flew me domestically on an international flight - very annoying).

In addition I got a bulk head seat and a spare seat next to me as Trish didn't fly, and the Valium was good.

Having missed my cheap bus back to Canberra I booked a flight (which was heaven) and was home by 9 this morning to be met at the airport by Phoebe.

It's good to be (finally) home.