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Horrible experience in LINATE airport in MILANO!!!
In Travel on November 23, 2007 at 3:06 am
I just got home from a business trip to lovely Malta.
If I/m writing a post this time of the morning (1:30 am) I’m either happy, or pissed off.
Well I”m pissed off.
I had to transfer in LINATE Airport and catch the ALITALIA flight A 730 to Athens which was due to leave (and did leave) at about 8:40 pm.
It was raining like hell in MILANO where LINATE airport is.
They shuttled us from the terminal (terminal A52) to the Airplane. AGain, it was raining like hell.
The shuttle drove to the back of the plane, where there was a narrow staircase eminating from the tail of the plane and leading into the plane. The shuttle opened the doors and we were expected to walk under the tail of the plane, into these narrow stairs leading to the rear part of the plane.
Of course alot of people descended from the shuttle, and since the stair to the plane was extremely narrow (with NO ONE FROM LINATE OR ALITALIA TO HELP..IT WAS RAINING AFTERALL) most people stood in the rain waiting for one and the other to mount the plane.
At some time after the airport/airline realized their mistake they opened the front hatch to the plane and a particular ground person instructed some of the passengers to go to the front of the plane.
Note that ALITALIA/LINATE did not instruct the shuttle to drive the remaining passengers there…oh no…they asked the passengers to run like madin the rain to board the front of the plane via an uncovered staircase.
Some of them did, run in the rain, and eventually mounted the plane from the front staircase that was not, and I repeat, was not covered in any way. There were a little further up a couple of parked covered staircases but LINATE/ALITALIA decided that it was better to leave them there than to bring them over to help their passengers. And again, both the ground personel and the crew watched on as we got soaked.
When we finally boarded (and there’s nothing worst than sitting in a flight wet from the rain..good way to end up with a cold if not pneumonia etc..) I had a nice little chat with one of the flight attendants but he acted indifferently as if nothing happened. He was well and dry with his jelled hair and really couldn’t give a fuck…its not his ass after all….
FOUL ON YOU ALITALIA AND FOUL ON YOU LINATE MILANO!!!
Sorta reminds me of the way McLaren managed British football under his umbrella….
