Stranded in China

August 24, 2008 by hillarybangkok.

So I’ve been living in Bangkok, Thailand studying abroad for the past several months. I decided to book a trip through Orbitz to China to visit a friend who was helpfully fluent in Chinese. Everything was fine, the trip was great. August 21st, I show up at the Kunming, China airport to find out that my flight home does not exist. I look at “My Trips” to find out that my 3:20pm flight on the 21st is now on the 22nd. My friend who spoke Chinese hopped on a bus hours earlier to keep travelling so suddenly I was stuck in China without the language, without a place to stay for the next 36 hours, and I was going to miss a midterm exam back in Bangkok. I sent Orbitz several emails asking them so KINDLY why they didn’t think it was important to email me that my flight had changed by 24 hours, but their response was essentially: these things are complicated. Fuck you, Orbitz, it’s just an email.

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