The Departure

I was super excited. Ye ye nak pergi Bandung. Flight pukul 9.40 pagi so dalam pukul 8.00 dah sampai LCCT. Oh, forgot to mentioned yang dd tumpang saya. At first Kheri kot yang sampai dulu, al-maklumlah rumah dekat. Huhu. Then, baru kitorang sampai serentak dengan ros dan encik tunangnya, Idzuan. Tak lama selepas itu barulah Lina sampai. Woah, masing-masing muka excited ni nak pergi Bandung. Masing-masing bawa beg besar supaya senang shopping sakan kat sana.

~ beg-beg kami (missing in action : beg lina) ~

So, after we checked in our bags, we went to McD to have our breakfast. Then, settled semua, stopped sekejap kat restroom, kitorang pun terkocoh-kocoh gerak ke Gate T5 to board the plane. Bila sampai kat Gate T5 tu, saya rasa macam agak cuak sebab tengok lengang. Aleh-aleh selepas tu, ada staff Air-Asia dropped the bomb.

“ Ke Bandung ye?” kami mengangguk.
“ Maaf cik, cik dah terlepas flight!”

...WHATTTTTT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLL???!!!


I was so stunned, I thought to myself he was just kidding sampai I think like I’m on Punk’d or Wakenabeb or something. We were all so speechless, it was as if there was a moment of silence among us that we just looked at each other and went blanked! I looked at my watch and it’s only 9.25. It can’t be thaaat late. Flight selalunya take off sama ada on time or delayed. Tak pernah pula depart early. Bila tanya the guy yang jaga counter masa checked in bags tu 20 minit before depart kan kena masuk, he said yes. INILAH DINAMAKAN MISCOMMUNICATION. What worst was that bukan kitorang 6 orang je yang missed the flight. They were 8 other passengers who also missed the same flight sampai saya rasa macam if it’s only us maybe it’s our mistakes la kan but 14? 14 passengers? They (I’m referring this to Air Asia staff) must did something wrong somewhere! (I’ll tell why I prefer MAS over Air Asia in other post). Bila keadaan dah tenang sedikit and we gained our momentum back, we sorted things out (way too many things to mentioned) and decided to buy ticket for the next flight to Bandung which was schedule to leave at 3.30pm.

~ walk of shame ~

~ aksi kecewa mereka yang ditinggalkan pesawat ~

Ye, 5 hours stranded at the airport. Tu yang saya kata dah macam Amazing Race dalam status Facebook saya. hoho. masa ni dah tentu lah kan Air Asia charge lebih mahal, we paid RM320 each. ni untuk one way saja tau. lebih sudah dari harga tiket asal yang pergi balik. Tapi oleh sebab masing-masing masa ni takde cash so gunalah dulu credit card encik tunang ros. Lepas tu sementara tunggu flight, kami terserempak dengan mangsa seperti kami juga yang missed flight ke bandung ni jadi apa lagi, bermulalah episod maki hamun terhadap Air Asia. haha.

Itulah pengalaman pertama saya tertinggal flight! It was a lesson learned for all of us. Selama ni travel tahu-tahu parents yang settled kan semua, takde pula nak tengok boarding time pukul berapa semua. ikut je parents. parents check-in, saya check-in. parents masuk boarding room, saya masuk boarding room... *sigh*

Jadi moral of the story is...ALWAYS make sure you read the boarding pass clearly and make sure you get the information correctly from the check-in counter! Tanyalah saja banyak kali tak kesah lah dia nak emo ke apa asal selamat semua.

ps : kalau nak detail lagi apa yang berlaku, lawatilah blog dd dudu.

Next Chapter : Day One in Bandung...stay tuned!