In Reply to: getting to airport early. posted by jojoy on Saturday, 10. April 2010 at 15:28 Bali Time:
I cannot believe why so many people panic and make statements like "I wont ever fly with them again",for goodness sake why can it not be something like a computer glitch? have you never had a computer problem ever before? and your computer is not handling millions of enquiries etc every day.
Every airline in the world over books seats every day to try and cover no-shows,people on this forum were talking about doing this in the last few days, so i dont know you would think it is criminal especially when they have already put you on a different flight already.and that is NOT why they say go to the airport 90 mins before departure (depending on the airline it is either 2 or 3 hours before) and this is to give them time to process hundreds of people onto the flight and load their luggage onboard to attempt to keep to their schedules.
Actually the timing of the disapearing flight would probably be a perfect timing for them to uase just the one aircraft on the route (rather than linking with a flight coming into bali from elsewhere) as they and other carriers, try for a 30 min turnaround a lot of the time.
Ted