2015: Pray If You Need to Fly

There are days when we need to know God understands our concerns – especially when it comes to taking care of aged parents. My wife and I encountered two unexpected surprises.

29/June/2015. Konan mín þurfti að komast til Sydney á fyrri flugi á allra síðustu stundu. Ég þurfti að breyta brottför flug hennar einn daginn fyrr frá 1 Júlí til 30 Júní. The ticket was a simple lowest cost economy class that was originally booked in April. I requested for the change less than 36 tímum fyrir brottför. Get this. Ég fékk sæti, but here’s the amazing thing…I also got a $7.90 Endurgreiðsla. I can understand we have to pay a changing fee (sem ég gerði) but I got a shock of my life when I received a refund from Qantas Airways. Ég hafði aldrei komið upp dæmi þar sem ég fékk endurgreitt fyrir að breyta flug!

Hvað er svo merkilegt að fá smá $7.90 Endurgreiðsla? Big samningur rétt? Well it was a big deal. Konan mín var upphaflega áætlað að fara til Sydney á 1 Júlí til að sækja fjölskyldu brúðkaup. An unexpected incident happened where her mum suddenly suffered a stroke, and my wife had to rush to see her before 1 Júlí. The bitur-sæt tilfinning að fara til aðstoðar á ástvin, og fagna brúðkaup sömu viku var erfitt.

27/Jul/2015. My wife was now back in Singapore. My wife planned to go back to Sydney to see her mum and family again. Her desire was to go on 3 Ágúst. Flights to Sydney were very expensive at this time of the year. I had been monitoring the airfare on Scoot, Qantas, Singapore Airlines over 2 vikur. All expensive. Using my Singapore Airlines frequent flyer points to redeem a seat on the cheapest Economy Saver class at the end of July/early Aug was extremely difficult, to say the least. Frequent flyer seats were available, but they were on a higher class.

On that morning, I logged in to the Singapore Airlines website. What were the chances of getting a Economy Saver seat to Sydney on 3 Ágúst? I proceeded to check. To my amazement … lo and behold, there was one available seat at the 8:15pm flight using the Economy Saver class on the 3 August to Sydney. Just one. This was just one week before departure and God provided that one seat needed. I was very encouraged because it is very difficult to redeem frequent flyer seats in general 1 week before departure! I quickly booked the seat. The flight on the A380 was nearly completely full as I was selecting seats for my wife. Once that was done, I checked the Singapore Airlines website, and there were no more Saver seats. 3 days later, I rechecked and basically all the Saver, Standard seats were gone (see below).

Sálmarnir 18:6 segir, "Í angist minni kallaði ég á Drottin, Ég hrópaði til Guðs míns um hjálp. Helgidómi sínum heyrði hann raust mína; óp mitt barst fyrir hann, í eyru hans ". The $7.90 refund and the ability to get a Saver class seat on the exact day we wanted to go, one week before departure helped my faith fly. Lesson lært: Pray to God for help when you need it. Guð getur svarað þér í flestum óvæntum hætti.