My unexpected stop in Omaha
AP: Threat Forces Flight to Land in Omaha. I was on this flight, on my way home for Christmas from Reno. I was originally happy that we found a nonstop, non-redeye flight from Las Vegas to Hartford, but it turned into a redeye flight with a stop in an Omaha airport hangar.
Because the threat was made by a drunk person who didn't make the flight (according to the pilot), no one in the plane panicked, and we were mostly annoyed at the delay. They landed our plane in a remote part of the airfield, at the far end of which were waiting tens of emergency vehicles and police cars, I guess in case we exploded. They must not have been that concerned, since we waited in the plane nearly an hour for them to pull up some steps so we could deplane. It was 10 degrees in Nebraska, but they had buses ready to take us to the hangar.
We were treated kindly by Southwest staff, and given water and snacks. After asking us as a group a few vague questions ("Do you know a Janet?"), they bused us back into the plane, which refueled at a gate and continued onto Hartford. Generally, the whole experience was boring and tiring. Not quite Die Hard II.
I have a few pictures, which I'll post when I get a chance.
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Janet? Ms. Jackson if you're nasty.
I'm glad it was an unfounded threat and only minimally annoying.
Did the flight attendants/pilot tell you "a drunk person who missed the flight made a bomb threat, so now we have to stop in omaha?" Cause otherwise, how did you know it was a bogus threat enough to be annoyed, rather than scared?
Also, there are direct reno-to-bradley flights? Wicked! I thought we were the only ones with the awesome (though red-eye) LAX-BDL on delta.
Yes, that's pretty much what the pilot told us. He defused any panic right from the beginning.
It was a Las Vegas to Bradley flight. We had a short hopper from Reno to Vegas first.
i'm glad that that turned out okay. my trip home usually is a two-stopper from boston to dallas to lubbock. on sunday i took a tour of the secondary airports of the U.S., starting from providence, then chicago midway, then houston hobby and finally midland, tx. no one place had more than 20 gates, though i was mildly surprised providence had a customs gate. I was even more surprised that the same airplane/flight number made it from providence to midland and surprisingly surprised that there were 2 other people that took that long jaunt with me the entire way.
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