Reply #14: Don't even get me started on O'Hare! [View All]

It once took me twelve hours to get home from Denver -- to Detroit via O'Hare where I spent nine of those hours. It seems the air traffic controllers were miffed over not being allowed to stack planes anymore by the FAA so they slowed everything down; we were in a holding pattern over NE Missouri for so long that we had to be diverted to Indianapolis to refuel. When we finally landed at O'Hare I had missed two connecting flights and they kept sending me to different concourses with about ten minutes in between flights which was impossible. I had a carryon, my purse, and my cane and empty golf carts kept zooming past me. I finally could not take another step and demanded a wheelchair which took almost an hour to arrive. For all of this, I was offered one $5 meal voucher.

A friend of ours flew to meet us in Chicago last summer and the ground transportation refused to take her to our hotel because it was "too close" to the airport and not worth their time.

I vowed to never set foot in O'Hare again and I haven't.

Chicago. No thanks.