Dublin's Airport
To get to Chicago, I first had to fly through Dublin. Aer Lingus had the cheapest flight. It was a nice little flight. Its only about 55 minutes. I got to sit in the exit row and stretch my legs. They still have the flight attendants doing the safety speech instead of having a video. No turbulence, no problems.
When we got to the airport, the captain came on and said, "Welcome to Dublin. Just to let you know, we are using the stairs instead of the jetway because Dublin is having a power shortage."
I thought, "shortage" meaning that they didn't have enough for everything. They meant "shortage" as in "electrical shortage" as in the power was out. So, we were waved straight through immigration and told to go upstairs where we joined the people milling about waiting to check in and the ever growing queue of people who had been waved through immigration and already had their boarding cards and were just waiting to get a connecting flight. The power wasn't out that long, only about half an hour. (At least, I was only present for about half an hour of the shortage.) After that, they got lights and x-ray machines and computers back. They didn't have the monitors back that told you which gate you should be heading to. So, you had to go through security and then wait patiently in a crowd of people while someone in a yellow safety vest looked up each flight on a list and told everyone where to go. This only the delayed the flight for about half an hour, but I think its the best reason I've ever heard for a flight delay.
