Travel Adventures
It all started the day before, when I tried to check in to my flights to return to the US from Petrolina, Brazil. The website for the partner airline providing the domestic flight that would take me to São Paulo, proved to be the untamable beast. I couldn’t fill in personal information, emergency contact, email . . . nothing. Finally, after several starts and stops I was able to get a boarding pass. I must have slipped in between algorithms. Ok, now to check into the international flight. I opened the United Airlines app on my phone and tapped the check-in-now icon. A little pop-up window stated I needed to go to the partner airline’s site to finish the process. Back to Gol Airlines I went with no success. I could only get a boarding pass for the one flight, the first leg of the trip. That night after everyone had gone to bed, I pulled up the United Airlines chat feature on my laptop. I was determined to get my economy plus complimentary ...