End of holiday in the Bahamas, needed to connect to Miami for o/n flight back to the UK. - 5th in queue with my wife at Nassau and waited to check in - for 2 hours. Whereapon we were told flight was already full, but they were putting us on another flight 15 minutes later. Somehow I didnt believe them.
Went through to the departure area, where total utter chaos reigned as we found passengers who had been waiting over 24 hours to get home.
Transpired they had 'lost' their planes due to safety or financial reasons - never did find out which was true.
Thought I would be clever by buying 2 tickets with AA and worrying about getting money back later. Only to have the tickets removed on the say so of the other airlines supervisor who claimed I had no need of them as we were about to depart and they already had my luggage.
12 hours later we did indeed depart. 1.5 days later we got a flight back to the UK - and got downgraded just to rub it in. Interestingly large compensation claim went in.