Intl travel as a grad student: pack 2 days ahead, warn CC companies of travel, double check reservations, compile travel info into single doc, triple check passport expiration...
Intl travel as faculty: hey, looks like my flight is in < 6 hours. Guess I should pack? #proflife
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Replying to @johnregehr @clegoues
I know that
@ambrosebs has a good story along these lines ... I once booked a flight for the wrong week, which I discovered when I showed up at the airport.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @samth @johnregehr and
Nearly got stuck coming back from an IFIP meeting near Trondheim when my overnight train ticket was for the wrong month!
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Replying to @natefoster @samth and
I had a Jun/Jul mixup in my return flight bookings that time I taught at OPLSS and spent a month changing planes in Philly. (ok, the last bit isn't true)
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Replying to @pigworker @natefoster and
I once mistyped my name as "Edwub Brady" on a booking and had to choose between a large change fee or seeing if changing my legal name was easier.
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Replying to @edwinbrady @pigworker and
From experience, tell them that it was a computer error by them and it'll be fine -- my name is rarely the one on the ticket through no fault of my own.
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Replying to @samth @pigworker and
I tried explaining that and they finally admitted that yes it was stupid but they were still going to charge me.
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Replying to @edwinbrady @pigworker and
My suggestion is just show up at the airport and blame the airline computer system.
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As I remember, I was tempted to do that but too scared because I really wanted to go on the trip...
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