Janelle Rupkalvis' flight was delayed by two hours, giving her a matter of 'four or five minutes' to make her connection, but that wasn't her only problem.
A woman has revealed what happened when passengers on her flight were asked to stay seated so those in danger of missing their connections could deplane first.Janelle Rupkalvis is a travel influencer who flies with Delta and regularly shares tips and clips of her adventures to social media across multiple platforms under the handle janelleonajet. One video in particular has been garnering attention of late.
'I was very vocal, saying 'I'm on one of these tight connections let me through,'' she said.While some people made way for and attempted to help her get through, some were apparently oblivious to her plight. Rupkalvis captured the ensuing chaos in a video posted to her TikTok showing her having to repeatedly push through passengers exiting the plane at a leisurely pace.'Some passengers were taking up the entire jet bridge just walking very casually,' she remembered.
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