On Sunday morning I headed across to Geneva Airport for my trip to Autodesk University 2024 in San Diego.The trip itself didn’t start very smoothly: I couldn’t check in online – I suspect having two passports, only one of which has a valid US ESTA – meant that the airline flagged me for manual review. I really need to be more careful with my API (not the one I work with usually 😉 in future.
Anyway, this check-in fail led to a cascade of irritations, from having to pay for a seat (to avoid being assigned a middle seat on a long-haul flight) to going earlier to the airport than I would have otherwise (and buying a new train ticket, as the advance one I’d bought wasn’t valid on the earlier train) and then having to check my carry-on (I was in boarding group 9 for my first flight – I’d snagged a seat near the front – so the check-in person absolutely insisted he couldn’t let me take my case on the plane). With a delay on the flight out of GVA I was paranoid about being stuck…
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