The flight from Chania to Athens was scheduled for 16.15. When I arrived at the airport, there was already a delayed sign on the dashboard. We all stayed in the departure room until 18.00, under almost asphyxiation conditions. You know what a Cretan airport means during a tourist peak. Thousands of tourists flying charters who were leaving normally, while our own plane was sitting in front of our eyes a hundred meters outside the window waiting for us.
Every 20 minutes, our speakers told us that the delay was due to «increased air traffic in El. Venizelos»At 18.00 they agreed to pass the last check and put us on the plane. We finally sat in a chair, because the almost two-hour waiting in the hall we took it up. Except once boarding was completed, our pilot informed us that we could not depart. We'd wait inside the plane for another 20 minutes before we took off.
Many passengers wondered why they put us in. Apparently they didn't know that a delay of more than two hours gives the passenger the right to seek compensation, while if you've been on the plane even at the last minute before the gift, it's considered that you started the trip.
Gentle the pilot apologized for the delay and thanked us for our understanding (thank’s a lot for yourunderstanding), but stressed that the company had no responsibility. Some kind of sudden PCA audit at an El's air traffic control station. Venizelos, took him out of service, resulting in the creation of domino delays on all flights to and from Athens. That's how he explained it to us, you like me if I didn't exactly contain technical terminology.
We finally took off at 19:10, with the pilot telling us happily that the flight would only take 35 minutes. But arriving above Attica, less happy this time, informed us again that «because of the problem he previously described» We were obliged to do «a few circles» Before we land. We barely hit the ground on 20.10. In short, to go from home to the village to my home in Athens, it took me 7.5 hours. I closed one door at 14:30 and opened the other at 22.00. I wouldn't go to America either.
You'll say, «Well, that happens at flights and airports.»Deal, I'm just fluffy after that black out made in January, resulting in the closure of Greek airspace for almost 24 hours. You remember. I hope it doesn't happen again. August months because we're going to be humiliated internationally. Did they do anything meaningful or faked the machines, hoping they wouldn't come back at a bad time? Because yesterday I lived, it doesn't leave me much room for optimism. We have one summer ahead of us with millions of tourists and thousands of flights.
And anyway, the change of Article 86 to the Constitutional revision, good the soul of the right-wing party that must be saved by the treacherous Potamishians, useful and the agony of what Famelos and Polakis would become there in Syriza, but before that does the political staff not look to bring any new system for our air traffic? Thousands of people are in the air every day, and nothing will happen that will blow up the country again...
And if I'm going to need 7.30 hours to get from Chania to Athens (having paid 250 euros to go-la), to boil all these reforms or social-rights that I hear from parties and leaders everywhere. We're full of air.
