Yep, we're still in America. When we arrived in New York we were unpleasantly surprised to find that our flight to Cairo had been cancelled and that we had been rescheduled to take the next flight - 24 hours later. Apparently there's so few people flying to Cairo now that they've reduced their flights to only 3 a week. They're supposed to let everyone know that, but we missed the memo, so here we are in New York.
We spent many hours yesterday afternoon in trying to get our luggage back for our overnight stay here. This has happened to us a couple times, where our baggage was supposed to change hands between two airlines and we tried to get it back and both airlines said it wasn't their responsibility and they didn't know where it was. Fortunately we were eventually successful in getting the suitcases. Egyptair did put us up in a hotel overnight and gave us vouchers for the hotel restaurant, so we've been pretty well taken care of. Several steps up from being stuck in the Amsterdam airport overnight, I assure you!
I realized as all this was happening that of the four times Dylan and I have flown in and out of Egypt in the last 14 months, we have had delayed/cancelled flights and/or lost baggage on three occasions. Out of four. This is not a good track record...
We spent many hours yesterday afternoon in trying to get our luggage back for our overnight stay here. This has happened to us a couple times, where our baggage was supposed to change hands between two airlines and we tried to get it back and both airlines said it wasn't their responsibility and they didn't know where it was. Fortunately we were eventually successful in getting the suitcases. Egyptair did put us up in a hotel overnight and gave us vouchers for the hotel restaurant, so we've been pretty well taken care of. Several steps up from being stuck in the Amsterdam airport overnight, I assure you!
I realized as all this was happening that of the four times Dylan and I have flown in and out of Egypt in the last 14 months, we have had delayed/cancelled flights and/or lost baggage on three occasions. Out of four. This is not a good track record...