I am talking about his Northwest Airlines strike thing.

I, a complete ignoramus when it comes to current events and the bankruptcy and labor status of the various air carriers, booked a flight to NY over a month ago to attend my brother’s wedding.  On {drumroll, please}, you guessed it – Northwest Airlines. 

Right now I am going insane. 

I have spent over $350 on the ticket.

Over $100 on clothes to wear to said wedding (anything I had that was REMOTELY semi-formal is now in a landfill in Louisiana).

Over $200 on a hotel room.

And that doesn’t include the wedding gift.

Now you know, you simply have to know, that an airline struggling out of bankruptcy is about as likely to refund me for a useless ticket as the man in the moon is to come down and kiss my lily-white butt.  I will get a flight coupon.  For another flight on a bankrupt, labor-embattled airline.  Joy, joy, joy.

Or even worse – they choose to strike WHILE I am in New York, and I have to buy another flight to get home.  Last minute. At exorbitant prices.

Net cost of this strike to me is likely to be over $1K.  Net result to Northwest?  I am unlikely to ever fly them again.  And, I won’t be the only sucker with a revelation.   So there may not be an airline for the flight attendants to work FOR.

I want to be sympathetic.  I really do.  But right now, I am one selfish, pissed-off control freak.