Egypt - Day 0: Minor Bump

It was way past boarding time and we weren't on the plane yet. The only explanation we got was "there's a security check". After an hour past the departure time, they announced that we're getting vouchers for food and refreshment.



Gim did some numbers and broke the vouchers down to at a delay of at least 2 more hours. We also noticed that the plane that was parked at the gate disappeared - they must do the "security check" away from the gates.
Around 2.5 hours, one $10 voucher that only works at the wok & roll, one long line and a box of disgusting fake Chinese food later, they opened a line to the shuttle. After that line, we got on one of the last shuttles - we decided to wait in the terminal instead of maybe the plane. The shuttle dropped us off in the middle of the airfield, next to our plane. Luggages were sprawled across the tarmac. We were told, 5 at a time, to look for our luggage, "finger it and wave". How hard could looking for 2 black duffle bags be in the dimly lit airfield? We got lucky and saw ours right away.


It wasn't just our flight that was on the tacmac with luggages sprawled out. There was Emirates air. Egyptian Air, Emirates Air... see a trend?

It'll be too easy to end the story here.
When we got on the plane, a middle age Egyptian couple try to scam Gim's seat (At check in, I asked for an aisle seat, Gim the one next to it.)
The wife was occupying 34F (Gim's seat). We triple checked the ticket and told her that she was in the wrong seat (this is the AC bus incident all over again.) She points to her husband who was sitting behind her and he kept insisting that there was a mistake and it was the correct seat. He insist that the airline double booked and they were both printed the same seat number (I mean.. seriously?! at this day and age, I highly doubt computers make mistakes like that.) We asked to see their ticket, they kept pointing in circles. We grabbed steward and the couple finally produced a ticket that was a seat over (both middle, non aisle seats). She got up and moved over. Seating problem over. Nope! They gave an extra effort to make up 3 different stories at 15 minute intervals to get us to give up our seats for non aisle seats that would seat us apart.
They ended up finding seats elsewhere and an elderly couple ended up next to us.