Last year I went to Rio de Janeiro to spend a holiday. I don’t remember which one was. I traveled with my husband and one more couple. We had beautiful days with sun, beach, nice dinner, good conversation…everything was perfect until we arrived at airport to take the airplane back. We arrived at Santos Dumont around 6:00pm. Our flight was scheduled to 19:50. We did the check-in and we went to the lobby waiting the call. We waited there until 11:30pm when someone from the company warned us that we should change the airport, to Galeao, to take another airplane. We took a taxi to Galeao. We arrived there around 1:00am. At Galeao, we and all the passengers from that same flight, went to the company´s gate but nobody knew what was happening and didn’t know any information. After a lot of discussion, one guy from the company called us and told about knew flight that should be taking off at 2:45am. We decided to take this one, the flight take off on time. To complete this soap opera when we arrived at Guarulhos – SP we went to baggage claim to pick up our luggage. To our surprise…guess what…our luggage weren’t there. After to fill in a form we went to home and our luggage just arrived in the day after.
The airports last year was terrible… Sometimes when it happened, it’s better to travel by bus, or gain a lot of money and buy an airplane hehehe
Could you tell us a little more about the time you spent at the airport? What did you do while you waited for the final flight?
Hello Roberta,
Which airplane company is that? At 2006, I travelled to Rio and had the same problem as you… I stayed at Santos Dumont for 8 hours, waiting some news or a flight! I arrived at Guarulhos in the end, and Varig just paied our taxis because Arnaldo Jabor was in that flight, and he spoke something to the attendents that changed their way to treat us immediatly!