I copy pasted this from my girlzgaminghouse blog.

Ok, the CPL is over and there really isn't much more to say about it except for what you may read here on esplat. I was really ready to leave and spend some time at the Home of Chrome chillaxing and doing Christmas things.

Today however my usually calm, easy-going personality was cracked. Being organized I had written down all my flight details (including provided "itinerary numbers") and was confident that I would be leaving Dallas for Newark airport at 11am this morning. Of course, I had very little sleep last night as I wanted to hang out with the other players seeing as I don't know when the next event is so I won't know when i'll see them again! I shared a cab with CZM to the airport as we had flights leaving around the same time... or so I thought.
My ticket was booked on expedia.com which we have used many times to book our tickets and have never had a problem with. This time, I had a big problem.

I go to check in my bags at the express check in but my 11am flight to Newark doesn't exist! (Note: I had to go through Newark and check-in again with a different ticket / airline to get back to Stockholm). Thinking I must have been tired and just written down the wrong time, I assumed that my flight was the 12:30 one they mentioned. No big deal, all I had to do was check in upstairs.

After waiting in line for around 45 minutes to check in I discover that my name wasn't on any American Airlines flights. The lady at the desk suggested that maybe I had a different departing airline but after checking the other schedules of the airlines at BOTH Dallas airports there were none leaving around 11am on any airline going to EWR (Newark).

The next step was to run a check of my name in all their records to see where I was booked to leave Dallas. I wasn't. I started to panic because I knew I HAD to make it on my flight back to Sweden. My only option was to buy a last minute one-way ticket to EWR which was $730. That was more than my entire bunch of flights was from Sweden to New Jersey and back again. Checking all the other airlines for cheaper options I was out of luck as I had to make it to EWR on time to catch my flight to Stockholm.

Shocked and reluctant, I pulled out my credit card and agree to pay the shocking price to get some part of the way home. Transaction not accepted. Could this day get any better? I ask to use an internet terminal to check if I had enough funds to purchase this ticket. Apparently, there are no internet terminals in DFW (Dallas Fort Worth airport). Of course it was not an option for me to leave my excessive Christmas shopping luggage at the airport so I had to take it all on a crazy trek to the Hyatt hotel that was close to the airport (walking of course)... and of course there were many stairs involved causing me to spill my stuff all over the place all the time. I'm not strong enough to cope with all my luggage :(

I was pressed for time to be able to make the next flight and had to ignore the shitty situation I was in just to be able to not break down and freak the fuck out. I was on a mission to get a crazy expensive ticket to EWR. At the Hyatt they were very nice to me. They let me leave my luggage upstairs while I frantically ran around the hotel looking for their "Business center" where I could use the internet (which was SOOO not easy to find).

I quickly get on the internet (which they let me use for free because I guess I looked so upset) and spent about 5 seconds making sure I had the available funds to get this ticket. I also double checked my itinerary leaving Dallas and all the information I had given to the check-in lady was accurate. WTF?! I guess I could have handled it if I had made the mistake but I hadn't. Nothing was going to stop me from making it back to Sweden TONIGHT! Plus I was thinking about the luxury of Malaysian airlines and I couldn't cope with having to let that flight go.

After that, the Hyatt put me on the shuttle back to the airport and had people help me with all my bags so that I would make it on time. Now I had my ticket, I felt a million times better. And quite unnecessarily poor. It really freaked me out to think that how many times I have booked flights online and no mishap like this has ever happened.

I can't even begin to think how freaky it would be if I didn't have enough funds in my bank to pay for this flight. So everyone, please double check all your bookings so this crazy shit doesn't happen to you!

The cherry on top is that when I got to Sweden (yes i made it), they had left my luggage in NJ, HAHA! They're supposed to call me and tell me when it arrives but my phone is almost out of battery and the charger is in my suitcase.... :)