Bummer :(
by jirukun on Nov.04, 2006, under Dumb, General, Travel, Tunis, Tunisair
I don’t know where to start… I should have been in my home in Montpellier, but I’m still in Tunis 
My flight was at 1:30pm this afternoon, but for a very stupid, idiotic, obsolete process I’m grounded till tomorrow at 6am :cry:.
I don’t know if it’s my fault or the damn system, but all because of overbooking and no confirmation, in Europe this problem doesn’t exist anymore (honest) if a person misses his/her flight he/she looses their money, this way the airlines are covered and are assured that the passengers would attend or at least have their money (it happened to me when I went to Greece, and I had to buy a new ticket), unfortunately in the Arab world they continue to do this practice. (it did bring back memories of camel land)
I was on the waiting list, but seeing that there is no law/common sense in the Arabs (at least in Tunis) everyone jumped and started yelling at each other, a policeman had to be present to calm the people down (he didn’t do anything and was a waste of space), whenever I tried to move forward 4-5 people tried to jump the line ( 
line what line?) or whole families of 6 or more people going together to the counter, when I talked to the Tunisair employee he told me that Airfrance doesn’t have any problem accepting passengers without reservation, but Tunisair wanted a confirmation at least 72h before departure.
The funny thing is that when I asked for the next available flight, I was told to wait till the 10th of November 
-Pray for me that I reach home safely tomorrow please-
