The Flemings and Neves trip to Bonaire – 3/11/2022.
I now have new respect for the people who sleep overnight at the airport. The original plan for the flights was from New Bern to Charlotte at 7:00 PM, and then Charlotte to Miami at 10:30 PM and then we would sleep in the airport and take the 10:00 AM flight to Bonaire. But unfortunately, the trip from New Bern to Charlotte was delayed and pushed back to 9:30 PM. Because of that, we could not make our trip from Charlotte to Miami. A flight attendant informed us that there was a flight at 7:00 AM from Charlotte to Miami, but when we approached Customer service to get us on the 7:00 AM flight, the 7:00 AM flight was booked full, and the next flight from Charlotte to Miami was on Saturday, and we would have to get new covid tests, which would cost us another 400 dollars. So we were placed on the waiting list. We had to sleep in the Charlotte airport, which was a harrowing experience. We awoke at 5:30 AM to see if we were getting spaces on the plane. We had to wait until a few minutes before the plane left to get space. Thankfully, all four of us did get spaces on the plane. After that, everything was smooth sailing. OR WAS IT? It was not. When we got to the Miami airport, we had to sprint over to where the Bonaire flights were located. When we got on the Bonaire flight, they had a ‘minor’ technical issue which kept us in the airport for almost an hour and a half. Apparently, the ‘minor’ technical issue was actually an issue that caused that plane to not be able to fly. So we had to transfer to ANOTHER plane. Then we had to wait an hour for the luggage and catering to get on the other plane. After that, we had no problems and had to spend two hours at night, in the rain, driving around Bonaire to find our AirBnB.