Chaoui Airlines
02-27-2004, 07:03 PM
It was hot and the sky was clear that day. I remember that my flight to Argentina was scheduled to leave by 18:15 from JFK. I was flying in Aerolineas Argenitnas. I arrived at JFK at time. I did my check-in and I waited until the time of boarding. Once boarded, the pushback begin 20 miuntes late because of a technical problem. After that, we had to wait in the taxiway as for an hour and a half because there were 16 planes before us to take off. Imagine that! The people were getting angry. The Flight Attendants let us stand up and use the cell phone. During this hour and a half, a thunderstorm arrived. It was very dark now (because of the cloud). When the time of our take off arrived the captain told us "Ladies and Gentleman, the captain is speaking from the cockpit (I don't know why did he have to precise that), now there is a plane of BA taking off, after it's our turn." Once we got into the runway, the plane didn't use all his power, we went slowly until we passed the queue of planes waiting for take off and we went out of the runway. The captain told us that Kennedy Tower didn't give us permision to take off because in our fly zone there was big thunderstorm and as we waited too much and we had to wait too much because of the planes that were waiting to take off, we would be with insufficient fuel for the flight. So we had to go in the middle of no where in JFK to refuel our aircraft. It was like 20:30. Once we arrived to refuel our aircraft, Kennedy didn't give us the permision (at that time, all the passengers were very angry and they were shouting "We love American Airlines" "I'll demand this airline") because there was an electircal thunderstorm. The Flights Attendants couldn't help us because "they were in emergency position if the plane takes fire". It was catastrophic. So, we had to wait until the thunderstorm finished and we took off by 23:30. And the problems didn't finished. But before continuing, the captain, beacuse of what happened, let me get into the cockpit. I went twice times. When I went in the morning, I learned that EZE was closed because of the fog. Only 150 feet of visibility. When I got back to my seat and the captain announced that to the passenger, they changed their humor. But, we only had to wait 20 minutes and we landed. I liked this flight only because I went two hour to the cockpit. But the worse thing of the flight was that I was seated in the middle and on the aisle. And, at my right there was a fat girl. So, I didn't have too much space.
Well, that's all. Sorry if I have a lot of mistakes.
Well, that's all. Sorry if I have a lot of mistakes.