It started with a horrific SYD gate where PR212 my flight to Sydney to Manila was scheduled to be boarded.
26A you say? I got apprehensive why is there a suffix after the gate number. Upon reaching the boarding gate lounge. I saw that one gate is shared to a maximum of 8 flights. Cos this gate doesn't have air bridge. It shared with 4 other flights. And of course Philippine Airlines was called last.
Ok then what? Then we boarded 45 mins late only to know that there was something wrong on the left philange (ask Phoebe!!). We went back to another gate. And took another 2 hours delay because they thought they can sort out the tech issue with the engine but they can't. And then added issue of the air bridge not working. Omg! It was horrible. PAL crew decided to give us appetizer to calm ourselves. Oh I forgot to mention I am on business class so we have preferential treatment. Funny how the Class Y pack were staring at our gourmet food while the board out. And yes, pilot announced we are deplaning so they can fix the left philange.
We were given 25$ meal voucher to buy us another 3 hours of waiting. Then we boarded for 2nd time. And then what?
Around 6.40ish, to add to total of 7 your delay the captain decided to call it a night because we don't have a philange. And they decided to go back to the gate and eventually cancel the flight.
Everyone was furious. Seems PAL doesn't know what to do in these circumstances. We were left getting our hotel accommodation booked paid of course by PAL. Worse thing they let us wait for further 1.5 hours for bus to come. And no ground staff was even there waiting with us. So you can imagine such chaos and we all lost faith with PAL.
Then after he long wait bus arrived. And when it reached Novotel I felt like a survivor from WW getting ration as I join the cattle in getting room booked. Another hour standing...
