You may have read or heard that someone tried to drive a flaming jeep into the arrivals terminal of the Glasgow International Airport today. No one was killed, but all flights in and out of Glasgow have been cancelled until further notice.
We’re not sure how this affects our travel, as US Airways is offering passengers the option to change their flight plans with no change fees if they had a flight scheduled all the way through July 6th. They obviously anticipate that there’s going to be a problem through then, as they’re losing out on potential money from change fees, etc.
We’re going to call our Travel Insurance company and see what our options are. They might not cover any changes we make to our origination point, as they don’t KNOW for sure it’s necessary, yet. They may not allow such a change until the day of our flight, at which time, it might be nigh-impossible to find a flight out of Scotland, due to everyone changing their information.
We could do it anyway, and just HOPE that Access America will cover it, since we want to get home for the 4th. :)
We’ll post more information here as we have it, but we wanted to let everyone know that we’re ok…we weren’t anywhere near the airport today, and only saw it on the telly at dinner tonight. See you all soon!
haha! You told me about this, then I went to the mall, and I’m at the food court, and I look up at one of the monitors. It’s playing the news and it was showing a flaming jeep! So I went, “dang, what a coincidence” I thought it was local news, but nope. The headline said “Terrorist attack?” and I went, “dude! Chris told me about that! Awesome.” And I started smiling cause I knew about it before the news had it up. :P
lol. Though it’s not exactly a smiling matter. Apparently, no one has been hurt except the moron who did it in the first place, so that’s good.
I’ll post more on what we ended up staying up until 1:30 this morning doing. lol
Wow. I’m glad you guys are okay…
Yeah, we’re totally fine. The airport is like 7 miles from our hotel. The only reason that we knew about it was that we saw the news during dinner. I’m glad we heard about it, though, as apparently the Glasgow airport check in line was a mile long today. :(
We switched our flight to begin from another airport just in case. Travel insurance will cover it. :)
So glad to know you guys are okay! Mom and I just heard about this earlier today, and we were quite shocked. We’ll be praying for everything to go smoothly for your return flight.