Do you have an airport horror story?

Question

I do... I was at the lax airport waiting for my flight, and this oriental woman and her child aprox. 3years are standing there and the girl kept tugging at her mom and then all of a sudden the mother picks up her daughter and pulls her pants down .. all the way and holds her while she pee's right there! In the middle of a section where there were like 200 people sitting watching... I could not belive my eyes then she picked her up and walked away leaving a mess on the floor which I watched like 100 people step in and slip on.....
That was insanley gross

Answer 1

Sounds pretty desperate.
My horror story happened in the airplane. I pulled the seat pocket open to get the airline magazine, but someone had thrown up in there. It wasn't cleared up between flights. Since the flight was full and about to take off, I couldn't switch seats. Imagine sitting there for two hours with barf just inches away from you.

Answer 2

LAX airport in Los Angeles. Arriving there in the morning after debarking from our cruise ship. 4 Adults and 4 children. The idea was to check in our baggage then take a bus and visit Hollywood as a final day to an excellent Disney Land/cruise holiday.
We were informed that we could not check in our baggage untill 4 hours before departure time and that was at 8 0'clock that evening. "No trouble," we said. "How about a storage locker"? "We do not have storage lockers here." "Why"? we asked. "Because of 9/11" was the answer..

"Don't you have a room, a closet space where we can store our baggage" ? "Again, no, because of 9/11".
Making a long story short. We were in that airport from 10 in the morning untill 8 at night. Bbbbbbooooooooorrrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggggg

Answer 3

Flying on Air Mexicana in the late 1980's... we were leaving Cancun and had flown maybe 20 minutes when the plane had to go back to the airport for some emergency... of course, we did not know what emergency because the emergency instructions were given in Spanish. We were stuck in the International concourse for 18 hours. Back then, there was no airport security--- it was all the Federales, these quasi-military guys with very large automatic weapons. You can't leave International once you pass security there, so we were stuck for 19 hours with no food or drink except expensive chocolates and vodka from the duty-free shop. And room-temperature vodka with nothing to chase it is really nasty, especially when you haven't eaten in many hours! It was really hot and someone's little kid kept throwing up in the trashcan behind us.

Answer 4

Gross! I was at LAX waiting for a flight to Hawaii, and found out my airline actually got shut down due to a custodian flying the plane. I was stuck, alone, with all of my belongings waiting in a standby line for 8 hours. If I left the line I would miss my chance to go. No food or bathroom breaks, and no cell phone. I was only 17, so that made it even scarier.

Answer 5

terrible. no standards. mine is not as bad, but... here goes. i had just screened my carry-on to go to florida w/ my parents. i was about 7 yrs. old, and must admit that i looked totally innocent. well, the screener dude. suddenly grabbed me by the arm and took me to this place with the magnet wands and did the whole check thing. i was really frightened- i knew there was nothing dangerous in my bag when i left the house, so i thought maybe some terrorist planted a gun on me or something. i had never been as scared. all of the guards had these really scary mean faaces and they wouldn't let me go back to my parents. well, turns out, my mom had stuffed her sewing kit into my bag at the last second of packing, because her bag was full. it was full of threads, samplers... really innocent stuff... but then there was 1 needle... a really tiny thing, that couldn't have hurt anything ( i knew, because i had pricked myself on it multiple times when my mom was teaching me to sew) but they thought it was a threat and a murder weappon, and they thought, like i had, that someone planted it on me. finally, my parents got to talk to the security people and worked it out, but i was still totally freaked. and by the time the whole thing was over, we almost missed our plane.

Answer 6

I was flying from Hawaii to California and the headset was playing Donny Osmond records. I damanded a refund at the terminal and got it a fee flight pass instead.;/

Answer 7

i have a better story...one time i flew into JFK from london. got off the plane and freddie kruger came out of nowhere with those f$@king claws and started chasing me. i ran all the way down the terminal through the food court......then the worst happened. well, since i run alot faster than freddie, i had time to stop at the bar and order a beer. got the beer and paid for it, sat down, then a vampire bat flies across the room toward me. the bat then turns into count dracula and he knocks over my beer talking about "i vant to suck your blooood!"....the beer i just bought.....the beer that was supposed to quence my thirst from running away from freddie.......worst day ever.

Answer 8

YES. 3 days trapped in Newark. Crazy traumatic. Only food came from vending machines, crying and vomiting babies everywhere, greasy, creepy business travelers trying to pick me up (not sure why, I hadn't been able to shower in 3 days, but hey, some people....).