There's nothing interesting about this.
California comedian Adam Conover didn't laugh when a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to London's Heathrow Airport was decouped into the air on Thursday.
In the air for less than four hours, the American Airlines flight returned to LAX at 10:17pm. It will be performing on Saturday night at the Leicester Square Theatre in London at the sold-out stand-up gig.
Luckily, his manager's assistant – “a heroic woman named Maddy” was able to book him an alternative itinerary.
“I went home… I saw the finale of “retirement” and slept for 3 hours, went back to a relaxed place, and now I'm on my way. [John F. Kennedy International Airport],” 42-year-old “Adam Ruins Everything Everything,” told the post in a text from the plane Friday afternoon.
After a four-hour layover at JFK on Friday evening, Conover will take a flight to Manchester and will be on a two-hour train ride to the British capital.
“Usually, when you have a story of air travel like this, you think the news is, “It must have been smoking being in the air for that.” This time that happened to me,” he texted.
In his upcoming performance, “I've told the audience, 'You've enjoyed this show more – I went through hell to take it to you,” Conover said, adding, “I think both British and Americans need to laugh at how F-Ked Air Travel is now.”
Unfortunately for Conover and other travelers, dissatisfied passengers affected by the flight disruption were crowded and formed a long line to speak to British Airways customer service agents at JFK on Friday afternoon.
“We're ready to go home. We don't want to be here anymore,” Harriet Swar Black, a tourist who's been visiting the Big Apple since Monday, told a post from inside the terminal.
Swalback and her friend Daniel Llewellin were three hours on a flight from JFK to Heathrow on Thursday when the captain announced the repurchase.
“At this point we're going to every city in Europe, but no one will help us rebook,” lamented Swarback.
JFK is the busiest travel route in Heathrow, according to the plane tracking website flightradar24, with around 146 flights to and from Queens Airport per week.
Heathrow is expected to be fully operational by Saturday morning, airport CEO Thomas Woldbye said Friday.
