I am going to ask your forgiveness in advance, because, I had to laugh. I was not laughing at your experience, but it did remind me of something a friend told me some years ago. Apparently, airline employees in the South Pacific...particularly the Micronesian islands...are a different breed. The example I was given was a flight that landed on one of the islands. A lady who was a local there was shouting orders at the ramp personnel. It turned out she didn't work for the airline...her son did. He wanted to go fishing, so he took the day off and his mother worked in his place. Now, I could just picture Louisa taking the place of her son while he went fishing! Yeah...I'm sure Louisa worked for Air Pathetic, and I'm sure she was less than helpful. My guess...she's a control freak who hates Americans. I guess there are others on that island that feel the same way, given the problems you had with local businesses. I guess they haven't awaken yet to the fact that tourists are avoiding Fiji.
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