Flying the Frustrating Skies

Well, I made it to Vancouver in one piece, except for my peace of mind, which didn't really arrive intact.

Changi Airport's Terminal 3 is nice and new, with a lot of a Sea Barnacle theme going on. If you go there, you'd know what I mean. I initially thought that those were Big Brother Security Cams, but there's nothing inside. Found out later that those are Air-Con vents! Nice idea, if visually as appealing as giant barnacles.

I was happily anticipating my Vancouver Tech Comm conference and a few days thereafter of relaxing with friends, so I was in a nice mellow mood when I strolled into Terminal 3. Trying to get my boarding passes at the United counter was slightly trying, when they told me that although my United boarding pass was ready, the Air CanaDUH flight was scheduled for the day after. After a lot of brow-furrowing and exasperated e-ticket pointing, they confirmed that my e-ticket dates were correct, and told me to get the boarding pass for the Air CanaDUH flight in Hong Kong. Hm.. Okaaaay..

The Singapore to Hong Kong leg was fine, plain and uneventful. I even had the entire row of seats to myself. Wish I could have brought that with me though...

I was supposed to fly Air CanaDUH for the Hong Kong -> Vancouver leg. So I got off the United code-share flight, and speed-walked past sloths in human guise to arrive a short queue (yay!) of people, waiting to get boarding passes for the Air CanaDUH flight. And waited.
And waited.
And WAITED.
In the course of one hour, 4 people were served. Bleah! (un-yay!)

Turns out that Air CanaDUH "delayed" the flight to the next morning! ARRRRRGHHH! Pepperdemon and I harangued the counter staff mercilessly for alternatives (I'm imagining that the now-very-long-queue-of-frustrated passengers would have done the same thing). The haranguing must have worked, because an hour later, a frazzled-looking transfer counter person emerged from her cave to pass us Cathay Pacific tickets. Whoo hoo. (at least I got a seat).