The initial flights

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I arrived at the airport too late to board my flight due to traffic congestion. At the airport, the Delta rep assured me that if I purchased a $900 ticket, I could make my connecting flights. I got into Toyko and had massive problems there. They didn't believe I had a flight scheduled, so I had to sit around for an hour while they tried to confirm that the flight I told them, did in deed, in fact, exist. I got up there and they said all connecting flights had been canceled due to my first missed flight. They offered me 4 options. 1. pay $4,500 USD to re-purchase my tickets. 2. Pay $2,500 USD for a one-way to HI on the same flight I was supposed to leave on. 3. Pay $2,300 and board a competitor's airline for a round-trip HNL-NVT-HNL. 4. Buy a ticket back to Shanghai. I chose the third option in my stressed out state and finally, I got to Hawaii.

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