Our trip back from Buenos Aires was just about as fun as the trip there. We got to the airport in Buenos Aires plenty early. As boarding time approached we noticed that there was still no plane at our gate. We had about 1 hour and 30 minutes for our connection in Rio, which would include customs and immigration, so we didn't want to be delayed too much. A plane finally arrived near our departure time. It deplaned fairly quickly. We finally boarded about 1/2 hour late. Everyone got settled in and we were waiting to depart. About 20 minutes after boarding finished, the pilot came on the intercom and said that our departure would be delayed for one hour (and no reason given). Sometime later he came back on and said they had requested an earlier departure but were denied.
We finally made it to Rio and had to clear customs and immigration, which actually went pretty quick. Since we missed our connecting flight, we had to leave the international area of the airport and go to the domestic flights GOL office to reschedule our flight. We rescheduled for our flight and were taken to the front of the domestic flight check-in (which was a very good thing since the lines were very long). We had to re-check our bags and go back through security. When we got into the terminal and looked at the board for the location of our flight, we saw that our original flight hadn't left yet and was on last-call for passengers, and we thought about trying to get on that flight, but our bags were checked for the later flight it wouldn't do much good. Since it hadn't left yet I don't know why they didn't put us back on that flight, but we're guessing that if we had gotten on that flight our bags would not have made it with us. We left our hotel at 8:30 am yesterday morning and got back to our apartment at 9:30pm last night.
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