ストライキ Strike in Paris

29日　パリ発8：55　LH1027でフランクフルトへ行き、その後ANA便へ乗り換え羽田へ帰る予定。
だがっ！朝パリ空港に着いてビックリ!!!　
ルフトハンザ（LH)の全便がキャンセルになっている・・・・・。
「何や、こりゃぁぁぁ～っ！マジかぁ～～～。」
まさかのルフトハンザ　フランスがストライキ！
おいおい、どうなっちゃうの、俺は。帰れないって事なのか!?

何はともあれLHカウンターへ行くと、全便キャンセルだから下のブリュッセル航空（SN）の
カウンターへ行け。と言われ行ってみると、SNの客が先で空席があれば手続きする。との事。
それにしたってベルギーなんか行ってたら絶対フランクフルト発の羽田便に間に合わない。
並ぶ事30分、搭乗手続きは出来ないからLHの隠れカウンターへ行け。との事。
”どこやねん！それっ！”
これはイカンと、日本の旅行代理店へ電話し状況を説明。
担当者の話では羽田便にはもう間に合いません。
20時発のパリ⇒成田直行便にするか、11時パリ発⇒チューリッヒ（ZRH）⇒成田30日8：55着の
スイス航空（LX）に切り替える様にしますが、そちらでも引き続き手続きを続けて下さい。
との事。

その後LH隠れカウンターで順番がやって来てLX便　ZRH経由で成田への便でブッキング手続きを
してもらい、そのままLXカウンターへ移動し発券完了。
何はともあれ無事帰国出来ましたが、こんな事も有るんだなぁ。と貴重な経験をさせて
貰いました。ある意味ラッキーだったのかもしれませんな。

I was planning to depart from Paris to Frankfurt with LH1029 at AM8:55 and transfer to ANA airplane which goes to Haneda airport for back to Japan.

BUT! I was so surprised when I arrive at Paris airport in the morning.

All Lufthansa(LH) flights were canceled…..

“What is this? Is it true?”

It is real happening which LH France is doing strike.

Oh my God! What I should do and I may back to Japan or not?

Anyway, I cannot wasting time so I went to LH reception desk and LH person said today’s all flights are canceled so I should go to Brussel airline(SN) desk to get new seat so I went to there.

But SN staff said priority is SN’s passengers so if the flight has vacant sheet, I can get on.

OH my god!!! You know even if I can get the seat, if I go to Belgium, it is 100% impossible to get ANA flight at Frankfurt, going to Haneda.

I have waited for 30 minutes at SN counter desk but I couldn’t get seat so SN staff said there is hiding LH reception desk so I should go there.

“What!!! Hiding desk!! Where is it!”

The situation is not well going so I made phone call to Japanese tour office and explained the situation.

She said already I cannot catch ANA flight at Frankfurt so I should change to direct flight from Paris to Narita airport departing on PM20:00 or Swiss airline(CX) departing on AM11:00 via Zurich(ZRH) and arriving at Narita at AM8:55 on 30^th.

She will try to make booking one of them in Japan but she also asking me to continue booking procedure at Paris too so I continued to stay on the line.

And then my turn was coming at LH hiding reception desk and I could book CX flight, going to Narita via ZRH and moving to CX counter for issuing my ticket so finally I could solve this problem and completed.

Anyway, I could back to Japan safely so it was really special experience for me.

You know, maybe I was kind of lucky because it is very rare case to hit air plane strike, right?