The travel agent tells Kynt and Vyxsin that they could also fly via Warsaw (Polish Air, ding!), and that will also get in at 11:20 AM, and it leaves at 6:25 AM instead of 6:00, giving them more time to make the flight. As far as we can see, they don't inquire into the length of the layover, which is weird, because you would obviously check the length of the layover. So they decide to go with the Polish Air flight. The Polish Air office where Ron and Chris are is also open, so they pick up their tickets for that flight and get moving toward the gate. And then, back at the travel agency, Hendekea is explaining their need to get to Dubrovnik as fast as possible. It does appear that Azaria says, "Two tickets, economy." Maybe he needed to say it...more loudly? More firmly? While waving a lighter? Hendekea is in a hurry, but he's telling her to relax.
At Czech Air, Nick and Don are almost done, and Nate and Jen are waiting behind them. Nick reminds us that their tickets are on the 6:00 AM flight, same as TK and Rachel. But when they're gone and Nate and Jen step up, they're told that it's too late to get that flight, because check-in is closed. They beg and plead, they have to get on, but the ticket agent is sorry, and she can't do anything for them. Apparently, Lithuanian ticket agents don't like whining any more than ticket agents in other countries do. Someday, our teams will find the magical country where lamenting your situation in a tireless bellow is appreciated for the art that it is. They hightail it to the travel agency, where Azaria and Hendekea are still waiting for their tickets. They fill in Nate and Jen on the 6:25 AM flight, so Nate and Jen decide to try to get that flight, but Azaria sends them to another counter rather than telling them to wait for the agent he's working with. Azaria and Hendekea get their tickets. Elsewhere, Nate and Jen get their tickets as he laments their "freaking bad luck, man." ["...Judd? Is that you?" -- Joe R]
So the 6:00 AM flight leaves, carrying TK and Rachel and Nick and Don. Kynt and Vyxsin are getting ready to board their flight to Warsaw. Kynt says that it takes off in twenty minutes, so we're getting close to the line, as far as other teams showing up for this particular flight. Nate and Jen get their tickets at their counter and go. As Azaria and Hendekea check in, Ron and Christina run up to check in as well. But when Hendekea goes to inquire into seats close to the front of the plane, she's told that they can't change their seats, because they're in business class. It's kind of a great/awful moment as Hendekea, startled, grabs the desk and says, "Business class?" She grabs Azaria and passes on the bad news, and he has the same terrible moment, caught on camera, where he realizes that...noooo no no, they do not want business class tickets. Not the free drinks. Not the extra-wide seating! Not the slippers! ANYTHING BUT THE SLIPPERS! Angry as hell, they run back up the stairs to the travel agent's office. Nate and Jen and Ron and Chris check in for this flight. Upstairs at the travel agent's, Azaria and Hendekea ask the agent to redo their tickets in economy, but now she's working on something else, and they have to wait. By now, downstairs, Nate and Jen are being bugged to hurry onto the plane, so upstairs, Hendekea and Azaria are out of luck, as the agent finally tells them. She says there are no seats, but I think the issue is that the plane is, like, leaving. Now. "We messed up bad," Hendekea says miserably, one hand to her cheek.













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