ScottM
Taxi to Parking
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Yesterday I started my journey home from Ireland at 5am. Because I had been fly Luftahnsa the past 16 days it was cheapest to stay on them for the flight home. That meant getting from Dublin to Frankfort and then catching a flight to Chicago. Not a normal route for Luftahnsa, this gave me an 8 hour layover in Frankfurt.
The computers for Luftahnsa were down when I got to the airport and it took forever to get a boarding pass. But part of the check process apparently is to scan my passport and get permission from the DHS/TSA for me to reenter the US. Well apparently that did not happen.
8 hours later when I went to get on board my flight to Chicago they needed to scan my passport, no big deal, happens all the time. Problem this time was that the DHS servers were down. Me and 45 other were initially denied boarding. The rest of the airplane passenger were on board but the the plane could not leave as their information could also not be transmitted to DHS. This affect not jsut my flight but a whole bunch of others.
Long story short the US Embassy in Germany had to get involved to look for ways to allow travel when the TSA computers were down. Seems that there is no manual back up plan. Good thinking guys PPfffttttt!!!
Were were delayed by almost 3 hours. Got in after 10pm. Anyone with connection missed their flight and had to be put up at hotels by the airlines.
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The computers for Luftahnsa were down when I got to the airport and it took forever to get a boarding pass. But part of the check process apparently is to scan my passport and get permission from the DHS/TSA for me to reenter the US. Well apparently that did not happen.
8 hours later when I went to get on board my flight to Chicago they needed to scan my passport, no big deal, happens all the time. Problem this time was that the DHS servers were down. Me and 45 other were initially denied boarding. The rest of the airplane passenger were on board but the the plane could not leave as their information could also not be transmitted to DHS. This affect not jsut my flight but a whole bunch of others.
Long story short the US Embassy in Germany had to get involved to look for ways to allow travel when the TSA computers were down. Seems that there is no manual back up plan. Good thinking guys PPfffttttt!!!
Were were delayed by almost 3 hours. Got in after 10pm. Anyone with connection missed their flight and had to be put up at hotels by the airlines.
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