{"id":98,"date":"2009-05-16T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gergltd.com\/zambia\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-05-16T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T04:07:43","slug":"flight-attempt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/flight-attempt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Attempt #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am supposed to leave State College, PA at 7:24pm on Friday, May 15th.\u00a0 My plane is delays 4-5 hours because of mechanical problems.\u00a0 This causes me to miss my connection flight to London which causes me to miss all my other connections flights.<\/p>\n<p>To resolve the problem, I first went to the United Express counter.\u00a0 I was told that they could not rebook my flight because their system had no information about the carrier from South Africa to Zambia.\u00a0 I then called Orbitz, my booking company.\u00a0 The Orbitz customer service person expressed frustration when I told her what United Express had told me.\u00a0 She said that the carrier was South African Airways for the leg from South Africa to Zambia.\u00a0 I then went back to the counter and told the gentlemen there what new information I learned.\u00a0 He tried again to honor my request but could&#8217;t.\u00a0 He cited the fact that the computer system he was working from would not let him book another set of flights for me and insisted I call Orbitz and tell them to call United Express to change it.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am on currently on the phone with a gentlemen from Orbitz and it looks like they will have me flying out Monday now.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this happening, I kept pretty cool about the whole thing.\u00a0 I even made a new friend while in line at the United Express counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am supposed to leave State College, PA at 7:24pm on Friday, May 15th.\u00a0 My plane is delays 4-5 hours because of mechanical problems.\u00a0 This causes me to miss my connection flight to London which causes me to miss all my other connections flights. To resolve the problem, I first went to the United &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/flight-attempt-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}