Related. Flight out of Bimini was cxld. Dont ever book Silver Air.. Yada Yada we had to book two seats on a private charter.
The Bimini airport building is tiny. These four younger people show up and they are pretty intoxicated.it's become clear they are on our flight. They keep blaring their bad bunny on their huge Bluetooth speaker and dancing grinding like they were in a club. (i didnt mind the two blondes twerking to be honest) Multiple people from the airport have asked them to turn it down and they pout like children. It got kind of tense because they were blaming the rest of us for complaining but it was the airport staff.
Fast forward we are about to board the flight and the pilot is checking passports against his manifest. Belligerent people are not paying attention apparently. A few of us go on out to the plane. They get on eventually and we take off. It's only 30 mins.
We land at Tamiami Executive Airport. We go into customs and guess who can't find their passports. The non-drunk four of us get processed but CBP won't let us leave the building until the whole flight has cleared immigration.
The pilot is telling them "i handed you your passports'. And he points specifically to one girl . They wont accept responsibility. The keep trying to say the pilot didn't give them back. They are asking all of the other passengers to look in their bags. I've got a hundy they set them down on a chair or something in Bimini which means they are not getting into the US. At one point the officers are having to get involved because its getting pretty heated and the drunks are yelling at everyone.
Finally after realizing this could be a long term issue the CBP let's us go but I'll always wonder what happened.
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Karma is a bitch