Ever taken an airline pit stop? I have.
Today, I flew JetBlue from Boston to San Francisco, a new route for them and one for which I’m very thankful. I’ve got meetings in the Bay Area tonight and tomorrow, and I was excited to spend half of today in the city. Of course, things never turn out as you plan.
We arrived at SFO about 3 hours late, not because of any delays in Boston or in San Francisco, but because we needed to stop for gas in Salt Lake City. Apparently, the headwinds were around 200 miles per hour and facing our aircraft right in the nose. As a result of this, of course, the plane consumed more fuel to head the same distance more slowly, and they scheduled the refill in Salt Lake City, because it’s a major hub for them.
I’ve never experienced this before, and if it weren’t for free DirecTV, I might have been extremely mad. Instead, I just wished there were a slushy or hot dog machine, as there usually are at gas stations. Luckily, Nikki packed me a sandwich and an apple, so that feeling went away quickly, too.
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