I met a new friend in Hong Kong. (Come to think about it – I met new friends on every stop on my trip. J ) I met her on the shuttle bus on Saturday evening and we ended up spending the evening together. Then we met up again on Monday night (my last night in Hong Kong) and had another dinner and drinks. There were both really nice evenings and I got a very nice end to my trip.
This is what I love about travelling on my own – I meet so many nice people all the time. People tend to talk to you more when you are travelling on your own and I’m also more open to meet new people.
During my whole trip I have been prepared to have problems with my flights. The reason for this is that when you are flying on your points/miles you have the lowest priority if something happens, meaning that if your flight is cancelled you are the last one they will take care of - if they do that at all. I was flying with my Lufthansa miles, but I was only travelling with Lufthansa on a couple of flights. All other flights were handled by other airlines in Star Alliance and that increased my risk of being stranded. I didn’t however expect any problem on my first and final flights since they were with Lufthansa.
But that is exactly what happened. I have had no problems during my whole trip, but when I got to Hong Kong Airport with my ticket, Lufthansa told me that it didn’t exist in the system and if the ticket doesn’t exist in the system I couldn’t get a boarding pass. My face must have looked like a BIG question mark. How can a ticket that I have been using for 2,5 months suddenly not exist in the system?? I asked Lufthansa this and they told me “yes, we can see all your other flights here, but the flight to Frankfurt doesn’t exist in the system”. I didn’t know what to do or think. I asked if they thought I would be stranded in Hong Kong and they just said that they can’t let me on board the flight without the ticket and asked me to sit down and wait for the information.
Let me tell you – it was a very confused Lena that sat down. I try to always have a back-up plan, but I just didn’t think I would suddenly be without a ticket. I figured that the worst case scenario would be that I had to buy a new ticket, which would make a really, really deep hole in my pocket (one-way tickets tend to be more expensive than round-trips).
After the Lufthansa staff had been running back and forth a few times asking me questions like “have you made any changes to your ticket” and I answered NO to all the questions, they suddenly asked me to come along and checked me in. Now I was even more confused and asked them what had happened. They just stated that since they could see in the system that my ticket had been there and I hadn’t made any changes they decided to let me on board without the ticket and figure out what caused the problem later. Thank God for that!
So I came home as I should and now I’m sitting here making a summary of my trip, which you can read about on my next blog.
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