Flying to the Philippines or not flying ? This is the question !!

Here we are ... Friday 8th November at Kuala-Lumpur airport to take our flight to Manila. To be perfectly honest we did decide the day before that we will go to the airport but won't board the plane. The reason was.... THE SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN was supposed to hit the Philippines the same day... We have waited an hour to see if the flight were going to get cancelled but the hostess kept assuring us that the flight was still scheduled and that we should hurry up to check-in our bags ! No way, Sophie was decided to find a way to re-route our flight to Bali in Indonesia instead. After waiting for a good hour to get through the ticketing counter (you were supposed to get a queuing ticket but the same number was called for 45 min and Soph had 10 people ahead of her) Soph decided to cut the queue. We were threatened to lose our 3 flights on the same booking Kuala Lumpur - Manila, Manila - Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur - Bali if we decided not to board this plane. WHATEVER no way we would have flown to the Philippines right now... Sophie managed to convince the hostess to book us on the 12.25 flight to Bali the same day. We paid the fare difference and here we were safely checking-in to head to Bali ! Still Cannot believe that the plane for the Philippines took off with 150 people on board !!!!

Nous y voila ! Vendredi 8 Novembre a l'aeroport de Kuala-Lumpur pour prendre notre vol pour les Philippines. Pour etre honnete, nous avions decide la veille que quoi qu'il arrive, nous ne prendrions pas cet avion ! La raison.... LE SUPER TYPHON HAIYAN qui allait devaster les Philippines le jour meme de notre arrivee.... Nous avons attendu une heure pour voir si notre vol allait etre annule mais l'hotesse nous a confirme a plusieurs reprise que le vol etait bien maintenue et que nous devrions nous depecher de faire le check-in de nos bagages ! Pas question ! Sophie etait decide a trouver un moyen de transferer ce vol pour un vol vers Bali. Apres une bonne heure d'attente, afin d'essayer de parler au guichet de billetterie, Sophie a decide de passer devant tout le monde... La compagnie nous a menace de perdre nos 3 vols sur la reservation; Kuala-Lumpur-Manille, Manille-Kuala-Lumpur et Kuala-Lumpur-Bali si nous montions pas dans l'avion aujourd'hui. PEU M'IMPORTE ! Pas question d'aller aux Philippines aujourd'hui... Sophie a reussi a convaincre l'hotesse de nous reserver le vol de 12.25 pour Bali. On a quand meme du payer la difference de prix entre les deux vols mais pas grand chose. Et nous voila parties en direction de Bali ! Incroyablel que plus de 150 personnes aient quand meme decide de prendre le vol pour Manille !!!!