This flying talk is reminding me of the dodgy travel agent my aunt booked our holiday to Malta with.
They advertised the flights as being from Gatwick, and then after my aunt paid she was told that the flights weren't direct and that there was an eight hour stopover in Barcelona.
Its only a 3hr flight to Malta from London, so why the fuck they are arranging a package holiday with indirect flights is a complete mystery to me. Especially when we later found out that Easyjet flies there from Gatwick.
She ended up having to pay them extra to change the flights to early morning Stansted ones, which is a pain in the arse to get to, and we had to go up there the night before and stay near the airport.
They also told her that we had to be at the airport three hours before our flight. We got there at 3am, but the checked baggage didn't end up opening till 4am.
It wasn't announced before then where we had to go either, so we couldn't even get in the queue. We were just standing around for a fucking hour for just no reason.