Post your flight hassles at MyBadFlight.com

By at 11:58 am Friday, Dec 7

David Pogue is happy about a new website that lets you share your bad flight experiences, called MyBadFlight.com. For Pogue, it all comes down to Chicago.
In March, a series of canceled flights meant that I spent 20 hours getting from New York to Omaha, thanks to “weather” at Chicago O’Hare.

In April, I was supposed to speak in Palm Springs, Calif. But all my flights were canceled, thanks to “weather” at Chicago O’Hare. So the only way I could get there in time was to fly to LA, rent a car and drive three hours through the middle of the night.

In May, I got to sleep for 2.5 hours–on a cot in a utility room at a sold-out hotel–after my original flight was canceled, thanks to “weather” at Chicago O’Hare.

Also in May, my flight circled for so long over Chicago O’Hare (thanks to “weather”), the plane ran out of fuel and had to land in South Bend, Indiana. By the time I finally arrived in Sacramento, it was 6:30 a.m… just in time to get ready for my 8:30 am keynote talk.

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