Our taxi was on time and took us to the airport. All very easy, at least until we got to the airport. When we got to the ticket desk, the agent told us that my fight had been changed to go through JFK, but Rick’s was still routed through Hong Kong and direct to Boston. Our original thought was that because they had to change the name on Rick’s ticket and our tickets were no longer associated with each other that the Honk Kong flight was overbooked so they just moved me. To complicate matters further the agent recommended I check my luggage on to Bangkok because I was going to try to get my flight switched. Because Rick was just transiting through Bangkok and I had to go out to get my suitcases he went through customs in Trat and I didn’t so we had to stay in separate gates. We were talking through a fence about what needed to happen.
Meanwhile I’m in my gate trying to talk to OAT and get this straightened out. The OAT representative called Cathay Pacific and got Rick switched to the JFK flight so then he came over to my side of the fence.
We got to Bangkok, picked up our baggage and went to the Cathay Pacific counter. We told them that we would rather than spend the night in Hong Kong as opposed to NY. They made the appropriate changes to our tickets and agreed to pay for our hotel and meals. An agent met us at the jetway in Bangkok and told us that we were staying at the airport Marriott. We took the shuttle bus to the hotel and got checked in.