Sunday, November 14, 2004
Key West, FL (USA)
Woke up at around 0930 and took my rental car for a gas fill up at [gas station on Roosevelt Avenue owned by Mel Fruth ?] (1000). Our crew was planning to leave for Norfolk, but the other crew kind of screwed us by telling our maintenance team that we were broken. This led to a massive misunderstanding that made the entire day unpleasant later, since the other flight crew also told Chip (back home) that we would be flying up to Norfolk for them. At the time this was all developing, we had no idea about all the unspoken expectations and we stayed back at the aircraft waiting for parts to come to us. Finally, at around 1500, we were face to face with Brant and Keith and they were very mad! They thought we should be flying their aircraft and that they should have the rest of the day off (WTF?!). After some verbal scuffling, they got even more upset and ended up taking off again in their aircraft. Ultimately our part (for the repair) was delivered. By that point, however, we had to go back to the hotel (Holiday Inn Beachside on North Roosevelt BLVD) for our crew rest. Dinner was at a seafood place (had Mahi-Mahi). We'll leave early...