I almost miss my flight!
I was late for my flight which already scheduled on 8:55am. Intentionally, I want to check in at KL Sentral before depart at KLIA, but I’m not use to Malaysia Airlines system and made a wrong assumption towards public transport. And the story began after deciding to park my car at my office and going to KL Sentral from Kerinchi Station.
I arrived at KL Sentral at about 7:40am which means it was 70 minutes from my flight time. I rushed to Malaysia Airlines check in counter. I smiled at the sweet lady who works as the front liner of Malaysia Airlines, but she didn’t reply my smile. She asked me where my destination is and what my flight time is, I said KK and its 8:55am. She simply handed back my identical card that she requested earlier and said I was late. I suppose to check in 120 minutes before. I beg her for anything that I could do to make me in. Unfortunately I’m helpless. I need to catch 8:00am train that can take me to KLIA and reach the check in counter within 8:30am.
Surviving alone is tiring and hard. I refused some offer from my dearest friend because I was thinking it wasn’t that hard going to KLIA since we have KLIA Express instead of driving. Again I made a very easy peasy judgement. I wish I could turn back time, but I know its already too late. What I can do is just trying to adjust my mind set that “it’s okay, things would be better when I reach KLIA”. I have three options at that particular time either to stay in KL for CNY if the ticket price is ridiculously expensive, or reschedule my flight, or I’ll beg them to just let me in and give them any reasonable reasons. Along the way to KLIA I’ve been creating lots of reasons, some of them quite reasonable, and some of them quite ridiculous. What I have in mind was to tell them that my boyfriend is going to marry another girl if I’m not in KK before 2. *lol
I used to use KLIA transit as my main transportation years back and I never tried KLIA Express because it is too expensive. The differences are KLIA Express is faster then KLIA Transit (for sure). You can reach KLIA from KL Sentral within 28 minutes at RM35.00 one way which equal to the time that I will take if you use KLIA Transit from KL Sentral to Putrajaya or vice versa at only RM10 one way(if I’m not mistaken).
Nasib baik sempat naik train KL Sentral – KLIA pukul 8. Just after the train stop moving, I quickly rush to the train sliding door and run to the nearest escalator. Its hard to run because I’m wearing my slippery sandal, not my shoe. I’m thankful that most of the people who saw me running like hell on the escalator gave me their way to let me reach the top as soon as possible which makes me realize that Malaysian is an understanding and tolerate citizen too.
Finally, I can see Domestic Check-in counter. I can hardly breathe. I felt like I’ve been chased by a mad dog or something. I go straight to the first counter that caught my eyes. I hurriedly tell them that I’m late for my flight and ask them weather I can be in or not because it’s already 8:40am. A counter guy tries to contact person in charge at the departing entrance. To make this story short, I managed to get in. I thank him very much for his effort but he replied, he’s afraid his boss will scold him if I missed my flight. Ha ha ha. At the end of the conversation, he managed to get my cell number. Oops.
I’m really thankful because at 8:52am I’m already in the Malaysia Airlines plan. I guess the Economy Class is sharing the flight with the Business Class ticket holder because there’s border in between. MAS is not a free sitting carrier, not like AirAsia. I sit beside two cute kids who love to chat. Ergh, I can’t sleep very well until they fell asleep too, huhuhuu. Anyhow, they have a very good personality though. I was thinking that they were flying alone, but I was totally wrong because their parents are sitting in the Business Class area.
My flight is a one stop flight, which means I have to stop at Labuan Airport for like about 30 minutes before departing to KKIA. I never been to Labuan, even though its too near from KK, funny right? Btw, I thank to God because I was safely landed at KKIA at about 12:30pm as scheduled.
Lesson to learn here is be on time especially when its related to aeroplan.
p/s- what a lengthy post!
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February 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
kesian azurt, termengah-mengah kejar flight, takpe… maintain slim.. hehe..
“Paling indah hidup apabila kita mendapat semua yang kita inginkan, tapi paling tak indah apabila dah dapat, itulah punca masalah hidup kita.”
February 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
eh kene 120 minutes before perrr pergi kk pun kene cam tu ke? huwaa
February 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
The lesson is not to be “on time”, but to be “ahead of time”…
Glad u made it that day.. or else, your luggage je la yg travel to KK.. huhu
February 12th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
mirzack: Thanks… mmg mengah… huhuhh
syia: erm, 120 minutes before flight kalau nk check in kat KL Sentral. Kalau kat airport, rasanya 40 or 30 minutes before pun lepas lagi tu (or maybe ada penalti sket la)
ZeMMs: aah kan, ahead of time..
tapi Thank God, i managed to fly.. huhuuh
February 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
walaupun kelam kabut..tp u smp jgk ke KK kan…alhamdulillah… =)
February 12th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
aah..
June 14th, 2008 at 10:11 am
am just languishing here now..my wife and daughter were supposed to board Qatar Airways in Nairobi at 1 pm came in 30 minutes later and were turned away. The Airlines wants me to pay for their rescheduling of the flights..expensive …Highly regret and urge everybody to be ahead of time when it comes to bording flights to wherever