Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Typhoon Vicente (aka Typhoon Ferdie)

Typhoon Vicente hammered Hong Kong last July leaving several flights delayed and hundreds of flights cancelled.  Unfortunately, I was one of the passengers of those cancelled flights.

We were supposed to depart Manila last July 24 and arrive Toronto at July 25 via Cathay Pacific with a 12 hour layoff in Hong Kong.  However, it was during this time that Typhoon Vicente doing its damage in Hong Kong.  We rebooked our tickets for a July 26 departure arriving on the 27.  Great work by Cathay Pacific.  However, on the day of our flight, Hong Kong International Airport was not yet ready to accept new passengers since some passengers departing Hong Kong were still at the airport.  We were again cancelled. Good thing that this time, Cathay Pacific rerouted us to Philippine Airlines (Manila-Vancouver) and Westjet (Vancouver-Toronto).  We thank God that finally, on the third try, we were able to confirm our flight.

Our departure and landing experience will be included in my next post.